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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy (Record no. 5822)

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 00022326
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780151161270
024 ## - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER
Standard number or code 2284129
050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number PR6054.E37
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 823.914
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Len Deighton
245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 268 pages
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. From Wikipedia: Leonard Cyril Deighton (born 18 February 1929, Marylebone, London) is a British military historian, cookery writer, and novelist. He is perhaps most famous for his spy novel The IPCRESS File, which was made into a film starring Michael Caine. ~~~ Deighton was born in Marylebone, London, in 1929. His father was a chauffeur and mechanic, and his mother was a part-time cook. At the time they lived in Gloucester Place Mews[2][3] near Baker Street.[4] ~~~ Deighton's interest in spy stories may have been partially inspired by the arrest of Anna Wolkoff, which he witnessed as an 11-year-old boy. Wolkoff, a British subject of Russian descent, was a Nazi spy. She was detained on 20 May 1940 and subsequently convicted of violating the Official Secrets Act for attempting to pass secret documents to the Nazis.[5] ~~~ After leaving school, Deighton worked as a railway clerk before performing his National Service, which he spent as a photographer for the Royal Air Force's Special Investigation Branch. After discharge from the RAF, he studied at St Martin's School of Art in London in 1949, and in 1952 won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art, graduating in 1955.[6] While he was at the RCA he became a "lifelong friend"[7] of fellow designer Raymond Hawkey, who later designed covers for his early books. Deighton then worked as an airline steward with BOAC. Before he began his writing career he worked as an illustrator in New York and, in 1960, as an art director in a London advertising agency. He is credited with creating the first British cover for Kerouac's On the Road.[4] He has since used his drawing skills to illustrate a number of his own military history books. ~~~ Following the success of his first novels, Deighton became The Observer's cookery writer and produced illustrated cookbooks. In September 1967 he wrote an article in the Sunday Times Magazine about Operation Snowdrop - an SAS attack on Benghazi during World War II.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Mystery
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Withdrawn   Dewey Decimal Classification     Lake Chapala Society Lake Chapala Society 07/17/2024   HC DEIG 62090 07/17/2024 1 07/17/2024 Book

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