Talk:Desmond Skirrow

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 Definition British advertising executive who wrote three light-hearted thrillers in the late 1960s featuring a tough advertising executive-secret agent named John Brock. [d] [e]
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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 thrown in.

Amongst Skirrow's other work is a poem, "Ode On A Grecian Urn Summarized",[1] 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.

  1. (2007) J. Paul Hunter, Alison Booth, and Kelly J. Mays: The Norton Introduction to Poetry, 9th. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 400. ISBN 978-0-393-92857-0.