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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…
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- Title Department of Dead Ends
- Author Roy Vickers
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 277
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dover Publications, NY
- Date June 1979
- ISBN 9780486236698 / 0486236692
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Department of Dead Ends : Fourteen Detective Stories
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Department of Dead Ends: 14 Detective Stories
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THE DEPARTMENT OF DEAD ENDS
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NY: Dover, 1978. FINE condition in FINE covers. NY. Dover. SOFTCOVER. 1978. FIRST EDITION, THUS. AS NEW, bound in original brown glossy pictorial stiff paper wraps. Square and tight, UNREAD, NO spine creasing. Fourteen unabridged stories as originally published in periodicals dating from 1935 to 1958. Selected and introduced by E F Bleiler. Cover design by Paul E Kennedy. Stored in Archival sleeve. . First Edition, Thus. Soft Cover. Fine/Fine Original Wraps.
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