Roy Vickers
Of its true name William Edward Vickers , Roy Vickers (1889 - 1965) is a writer Britannique of Detective novel.
Biography
It used various pseudonyms like Roy Vickers , Roy C. Vickers , David Durham , Sefton Kyle , and John Spencer . It is now primarily recognized to have invented in its novels a Department off Dead Ends ( Service of the classified Cases ) with Scotland Yard, specialized in the resolution of not cleared up very old files.
He attended Charterhouse School , and left Brasenose College (Oxford) without diploma. He studied the right some time to Middle Temple , but never practiced it. He married Mary Van Rossem of which he had a son. he worked as journalist, to defer legal, editor of magazines, wrote a great number of articles which he sold with various newspapers.
Between November 1913 and February 1917, 20 news of Vickers was published in the Novel Magazine . At that time, it published its first book, a biography of Frederick Sleigh Roberts . In September 1934, The Rubber Trumpet , the first of the 37 stories relating to fiction " Department off Dead Ends , is published in Pearson' S Magazine . In 1960, it publishes the anthology of the news of the Crime Writers' Association entitled Some Like Them Dead .
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