Roy Vickers
Birth date: January 01, 1889
Died: January 01, 1965
Roy Vickers's Books
This collection of short stories from various Golden Age mystery writers was a mixed bag. I mean, they all are but this one struck me as more so than others. Maybe this was because there was no overarching theme to this collection. And it somehow felt as if the story by Agatha Christie was only ad...
This is a compilation of previously uncompiled detective short stories, most of them having appeared once in a periodical and then disappeared from view. They are ephemeral enough that that disappearance is hardly a literary crime, but there's a certain interest in seeing a really representative sel...
English mystery writer William Edward Vickers (1889-1965) was best known under his pen name Roy Vickers, although he also wrote under the names David Durham, Sefton Kyle, and John Spencer. He found his literary stride when he published his short story, "The Rubber Trumpet," the first of over three d...