Description: Queen's Quorum 104 Roy Vickers The Department of Dead Ends 1949 1st UK VG- First edition, first printing with MCMXLIX (1949) on copyright page. Publisher: London Faber & Faber, 1949. Octavio 5" x 7.5" [iv Blank] [viii] 11-254 pp [ii Blank]. Red cloth with black lettering to spine. No dust jacket. Book Condition: Very Good-. Spine is sun faded. Cover edges are lightly bent. Binding is tight. Text is clean but age toned. Long before there were 'cold case' TV shows, there was Roy Vickers's 'Department of Dead Ends' a fictional branch of Scotland Yard, in which unsolved cases are dusted off years after the event and finally solved. These "inverted" mystery stories (the reader knows who committed the crime, but the interest lies in how the detective solves the case) that appeared as a series in a British magazine in the 1930's. The short stories include: The Rubber TrumpetThe Lady Who LaughedThe Man Who Murdered in PublicThe Snob's MurderThe Cowboy of Oxford StreetThe Clue of the Red CarnationsThe Yellow JumperThe Case of the Social ClimberThe Henpecked MurdererBlind Man's Bluff
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Author: Roy Vickers
Personalized: No
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Topic: Mystery
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1949
