 Between January and March 1952, the journalist Ian Fleming wrote "Casino Royale", his first novel, at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica.Fleming conducted research for "Live and Let Die", and completed the novel before "Casino Royale" was published in January 1953, four months before his second book was published.Fleming and his wife Ann flew to New York before taking the Silver Meteor train to St. Petersburg in Florida and then flying on to Jamaica.