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Desmond Skirrow also wrote a children's book, ''The Case of The Silver Egg '', which was televised as ''The Queen Street Gang''. It involves the adventures of a group of boys tracking down a gang of villains and is in the tradition of Emil and The Detectives with a dash of [[Roald Dahl]]
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Amongst Skirrow's other work is a poem, "[[Ode On A Grecian Urn]] Summarized",<ref name="norton">{{cite book|title=The Norton Introduction to Poetry|editor=J. Paul Hunter, Alison Booth, and Kelly J. Mays|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|location=New York|date=2007|edition=9th|pages=400|isbn=978-0-393-92857-0}}</ref> which was included in the ''New Oxford Book of Light Verse'' edited by [[Kingsley Amis]]. He was the Creative Director of a major London advertising agency, [[Masius Wynne-Williams]], but died prematurely in 1976 at the age of 53.

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