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Department of Dead Ends: 14 Detective Stories by Vickers, Roy - 1978
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Mineola, New York, U.S.A.: Dover Pubns, 1978. 1st ed. Very light soiling to covers else about fine. Selected and introduced by E.F. Blieler. THE DEPARTMENT OF DEAD ENDS is a perfect companion to the Victorian compendium, for in it the lessons of the Victorian masters are applied by a highly skillful, idiosyncratic practitioner. There are many Scotland Yards in detective fiction, and the Department of Dead Ends is that part of the complex which solves crimes officially classified as uasolvable, using clues that have been discarded or even forgotten. The fourteen stories representative of this department in this anthology are from a body of work that has been considered among the-best inverted detective series in the history of the genre. Written in a lean, spare style, reminiscent of Dashiell Hammett, each of them is a case study in personality, and they collectively form a complete cross section of British society for all to see. . First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket. Trade Paperback Original.
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- Date Published 1978
- Keywords GREAT BRITAIN, ANTHOLOGY, METROPOLITAN POLICE OFFICE
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Department of Dead Ends : Fourteen Detective Stories
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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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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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