The Clermont Club - Casino Review - MayfairCasinos.com

I was reading a little about casinos in London and it seems the first official one to open in London was, coincidentally enough, in 1962; the year Dr. No was released in theaters. It's called the Clermont Club and is now closed apparently. Because i was wondering where Bond could have been gambling when he was called into the office.
Is this just one big coincidence or could the Clermont Club have been something of an inspiration for the producers to place Bond in this new casino in the beginning of Dr. No? He was clearly very close by as he's still in his tuxedo and M mentions about him never sleeping.
It's probably more likely that we're just supposed to accept that this is a film world where there is just a casino club in London at that time. But i want to believe that the Clermont Club served as a supposed regular hangout for Bond.
Can any Londoners or London historians provide some insight? Because this is the kind of shit that keeps me up at night.

About 8.55pm on 7 November 1974. 46 Lower Belgravia Street, London. In a well-kept Georgian townhouse, Lady Lucan, the wife of John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, goes down the stairs to the basement, where she had sent the family's nanny, Sandra Rivett (aged 29) to make a cup of tea several minutes previous, wondering what the delay was.
Suddenly she is attacked by a masked man who grabbed her and told her to "shut up". She would later recount that it was her husband's voice. They fought for several minutes until Lucan took off his mask and admitted that he had killed the nanny. In the basement lay a cloth sack with her body inside, bludgeoned to death with a bandaged lead pipe. He begged his wife to help him escape. She agreed if he would stay a few days. As he went to treat his wounds in the bathroom, she fled from an upstairs window to a nearby pub. He called at a friend's house some time after 10pm but she ignored the door. Soon afterwards the same friend received an incoherent, babbling phone call and hung up. Blood stains would be discovered on her doorstep the next morning. Lucan called his mother and asked her to look after the children, speaking of a "terrible catastrophe". He said he had seen his wife fighting with a man and come into the house. He then drove to Uckfield in Sussex where he visited his friend, Susan Maxwell-Scott. This would be the last sighting of Lucan.
As the police forced their way into his home, finding the body of Rivett, they were forced to look at the life of Lord Lucan. It seemed that the perfect life had gone wrong. Born in 1934 to an aristocratic family, he was schooled at Eton and in the United States before serving in the Coldstream Guards in Germany as a Lieutenant. After his service, he became a banker, holidaying in the Bahamas and developing a taste for gambling. One night at the Clermont Club in London he lost £8,000 (his annual income being £12,000) in just one night. Further nights at the casino cost him £10,000. He drove an Aston Martin and was even considered for the role of James Bond that was given to Sean Connery. By September 1974, Lucan and his wife had separated despite still living together, and he had taken to staying all night in casinos. In two months he ran up debts of £50,000, an astronomical sum in 1974 when a loaf of bread cost 2p (£0.02). At the time of his disappearance he was overdrawn to the tune of £25,000 just to banks, not to count private creditors.
Early morning on 8 November. Detective Chief Superintendent Roy Ranson arrives at 46 Lower Belgrave Street. Sandra Rivett is pronounced dead from blunt force trauma. A blood-stained towel is found in the bedroom. The basement stairs are drenched in blood and a pipe with bandages wrapped round it is nearby. Blood is found on leaves in the back garden. The police also show up at Lucan's second apartment. His wallet, keys, driving licence and glasses are on the bedside table. A suit and shirt are laid out on the bed. His passport is in a drawer nearby. His blue Mercedes-Benz (he had sold his Aston Martin recently) is outside with the engine cold and the battery flat; he could not afford to fuel it.
An autopsy is conducted on Sandra Rivett. Her husband, Roger, has a good alibi for that night. The focus shifts to Lucan. Would he come forward to help the police with their inquiries? Newspapers and TV stations circulate his image. Two letters, dated 7 Nov 1964, arrive at Lucan's brother-in-law's house, with blood stains on the paper. In them, Lucan speaks of "interrupting a fight" and "being accused of hiring the man that killed Sandra". He says he's going to lie low, and that for his children "knowing their father had stood in the dock for attempted murder would be too much". He also leaves instructions on paying the bank back with a pre-arranged auction of his property. He signs the second letter "The other creditors can get lost for the time being. Lucky." It would be the last anyone would hear from Lucan.
The Ford Corsair that Lucan had driven away from London was found abandoned in Newhaven, 16 miles from Uckfield on 10 November. It had a piece of lead pipe wrapped in surgical tape and a full bottle of vodka in the back. Its owner, Michael Stoop, a friend of Lucan's from the gambling circuit, received a letter a day later from Lucan stating that he "had had a traumatic night of unbelievable coincidence". Ranson suspected that Lucan had committed suicide, and searched the area around the town and its harbour for any remains but found none. A warrant for Lucan's arrest was issued on 12 November and circulated by Interpol. The pipe in the car had traces of blood from Sandra Rivett.
At the inquest into the death of the nanny, the landlord of the pub which Lady Lucan had ran into described how she was "head to toe in blood" and reportedly said "Help me, help me, I've just escaped from being murdered" and "my children, my children, he's murdered my nanny" without mentioning a name. Death was caused by blunt head injuries and inhalation of blood. Susan Maxwell-Scott testified that when she had seen Lucan he seemed "dishevelled, with his hair a little ruffled". Lucan had told her that he was walking, or passing by the house when he saw Veronica being attacked by a man. He let himself in but slipped in a pool of blood at the bottom of the stairs.
The inquest's jury returned a verdict that Lucan had murdered his nanny. However Lucan's friends protested his innocence. No fingerprints of his were found at the scene and no letter mentioned the lead pipe left in the Ford Corsair. The evidence against him was somewhat compelling; he claimed to have seen a man attacking Sandra in the basement, which would have required him to stoop down and look into the window, compounded by the fact that the lightbulb in the basement had been removed and left aside.
Lucan was last seen at 1.15am on 8 November 1974, after which he disappeared into thin air. His friends insist that he committed suicide, his wife insisting that he did it "like the nobleman he was". However, rumours that the Earl had moved to South Africa persisted. Lucan's brother insisted that this was the case. Another rumour was that he had travelled to Switzerland, where he was killed for shady financial dealings with the "Clermont Set". Since then, sightings have been reported in France, Colombia, India, New Zealand, Gabon, Namibia and South Africa.
Some questions:

• Did Lucan murder the nanny? If so, why? He surely had no motive.
  
• Why did Lucan insist his innocence despite the breadth of evidence against him?
  
• How did he escape the country without a passport, or any source of income?
  
• Why would he be so stupid as to leave a murder weapon in an abandoned car?