In July 1942, at the height of the Western Desert Campaign, two German spies revealed under questioning that they had been using a copy of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, found among their possessions, as a codebook for secret, coded radio transmissions.
在1942年七月，在西部沙漠的活动高地，两个德国间谍被质问出他们在使用达芙妮·杜穆里埃的《丽贝卡》的抄本，发现其中他们的财产，如码簿，用于秘密编码的无线电传输。