William Edward Vickers
William Edward Vickers (1889–1965) was an English mystery writer better known under his pen name Roy Vickers, but used also the pseudonyms Roy C. Vickers, David Durham, Sefton Kyle, and John Spencer. He is the author of over 60 crime novels and 80 short stories. Vickers is now remembered mostly for his attribution to Scotland Yard of a ''Department of Dead Ends'', specialized in solving old, sometimes long-forgotten cases, mostly by chance encounters of odd bits of strange and apparently disconnected evidence.He was educated at Charterhouse School, and left Brasenose College, Oxford without a degree. For some time he studied law at the Middle Temple, but never practiced. He married Mary Van Rossem and they had one son. He worked as a journalist, as a court reporter and as a magazine editor; he also wrote a large number of nonfiction articles and sold hundreds of them to newspapers and magazines. Between November 1913 and February 1917, twenty short stories by Vickers were published in ''The Novel Magazine''. About this time he published his first book, a biography of Field Marshal Frederick, Earl Roberts. In 1924 he published ''The Exploits of Fidelity Dove'' under the name David Durham, one of the rarest mystery books of the twentieth century.
In September 1934, ''The Rubber Trumpet'', the first of thirty-eight stories featuring the fictitious ''Department of Dead Ends'', appeared in ''Pearson's Magazine''. In 1960 he edited the Crime Writers' Association's anthology of short stories ''Some Like Them Dead''. The ''Manchester Evening News'' called one of his collections, "one of the half-dozen successful books of detective short stories published since the days of Sherlock Holmes."
Vickers's work has been adapted for film and TV, including ''Girl in the News'' (1940), ''Violent Moment'' (1959), ''A Question of Suspense'' (1961), and three episodes of ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' (Season 3: 1957–58). Provided by Wikipedia
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by Vickers, William
Published 1739
Published 1739
printed for Edmund Parker, at the Bible and Crown in Lombard-Street
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by Vickers, William
Published 1742
Published 1742
printed for John Beecroft, successor to Mr. Edmund Parker, at the Bible and Crown in Lombard-Street
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by Vickers, William
Published 1798
Published 1798
printed by George Grierson, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty
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by Vickers, William
Published 1745
Published 1745
Printed by assignment from E. Parker, for John Beecroft at the Bible & Crown in Paternoster Row
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by Vickers, William
Published 1734
Published 1734
Printed for Edmund Parker, at the Bible and Crown over against the New Church in Lombard-Street
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by Vickers, William
Published 1718
Published 1718
Printed for Edmund Parker, at the Bible and Crown in Lambard-Street, near Stocks-Market
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by Vickers, William
Published 1760
Published 1760
Printed by Boulter Grierson, printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty
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by Vickers, William
Published 1743
Published 1743
Printed by and for George Grierson, printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, at the King's Arms and Two Bibles in Essex-Street
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by Vickers, William
Published 1765
Published 1765
Printed by assignment from E. Parker for John Beecroft at the Bible and Crown in Pater-noster Row
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by Vickers, William
Published 1740
Published 1740
Printed for Edmund Parker, at the Bible and Crown in Lombard-Street
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by Vickers, William
Published 1744
Published 1744
printed for John Beecroft, successor to Mr. Edmund Parker, at the Bible and Crown in Lombard-Street
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by Vickers, William
Published 1710
Published 1710
printed for S. Manship at the Ship against the Royal-Exchange, Cornhil; and A. Collins at the Black-Boy against St. Dunstans-Church, Fleetstreet
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by Vickers, William
Published 1709
Published 1709
printed for J. Round at Seneca's Head in Exchange-Alley, and A. Collins at the Black Boy against St. Dustan's Church in Fleet-Street