The Department of Dead Ends
by Vickers, Roy
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0486236692
- ISBN 13
- 9780486236698
- Seller
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Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dover Publications, 1978. Selected and introduced by E.F. Bleiler 8vo size trade paperback; 277 pages From back cover: "The Department of Dead Ends - this special department of (Scotland) Yard collects and store the detritus of unsolved crimes until some future time when the material may be utilized or discarded... In creating this special department, the English writer Roy Vickers (1889-1965) wrote a series of short stories that almost all critics have rated as the best inverted detective stories since the work of R. Austin Freeman... Constructed in a sparse, direct narrative style reminiscent of Dashiell Hammett's in its avoidance of involvement, each story is a personality study, a life history of ordinary people falling or pushed into crime..." Creased back bottom corner, bumped top corner of covers and pages, one page has a quarter inch tear the bottom margin. Spine may be sunned (please see our last photograph.) . Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Charity Bookstall (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006500
- Title
- The Department of Dead Ends
- Author
- Vickers, Roy
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0486236692
- ISBN 13
- 9780486236698
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- mystery; detective; Scotland Yard; Short Stories; British;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery, Detective; Short Stories;
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