Department of Dead Ends: 14 Detective Stories by Roy Vickers - 1979-08-09

Dover Publications, Incorporated, 1978. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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… Read More

Dover Pubns, 1979-06. Paperback. Good.

Dover Pubns. paperback. Acceptable. 7x5x0. good minus. just a some foxig on page edges. Clean text. Shelving cpode Pulp est

Dover Pubns, 1979 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Secure binding with clean pages and mild cover wear. Softcover book..

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.

Dover Pubns, 1979-06-01. Paperback. New.