Roy Vickers
1889 – 1965
Roy Vickers is a pen name of William Edward Vickers. He was an English mystery writer who also used the pseudonyms Roy C. Vickers, David Durham, Sefton Kyle, and John Spencer. From 1921 to 1965 he wrote over 70 crime novels and 80 short stories. - Wikipedia Vickers is best known in the United States for the terse, understated tales appearing in *The Department of Dead Ends*. A prolific writer, Vickers was capable of adopting many styles and exploring many themes within the ratiocinative genre. His mature style explored the machinations of the haunted criminal mind--especially the criminal mind lurking behind a facade of perfect respectability. - Dover Publications
Books
- Dumyat al-bahlawān
- Through a glass, darkly
- Mystery Cats
- Compartment K; Night drop; Double image
- Double Image and other stories
- Service des affaires classées, Tome 3 : Le Cercle fermé
- Sweet adversity
- The Uncanny Stories MEGAPACK®: 16 Classic Chillers
- The Case of the Deadly Toy; Seven Chose Murder; The Merchant of Murder
- The Story of Roy
- Eight murders in the suburbs
- Hounded down
- The man in the red mask
- Murder will out
- Playgirl wanted
- Swell Garrick
- Murdering Mr. Velfrage
- They can't hang Caroline
- Lord Roberts
- The sole survivor; and, The Kynsard affair
- The hawk
- The girl who wouldn't talk
- By hook or by crook / The shadowy third / The whispering death
- The case of the restless redhead; Another morgue heard from; Six murders in the suburbs
- The Sole Survivor
- Service des affaires classées
- Et la servante est rousse!
- Best Detective Stories of Roy Vickers
- Let the Dead Past; Collectors' Item;The Department of Dead Ends
- Bardelow's heir
- Double image
- Four past four
- Ishmael's wife
- Murder of a snob
- The mystery of the scented death
- The Radingham mystery
- The woman accused
- Murder in Two Flats
- Find the Innocent
- Gold and wine
Author data: Open Library