Roy Vickers Net Worth
Roy Vickers Net Worth is
$800,000
Roy Vickers Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
| Date Of Birth | 1889 |
| Place Of Birth | England, UK |
| Profession | Writer |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | Vickers graduated from Charterhouse School, Surrey, and Brasenose College, Oxford, in England. |
| 2 | Vickers was an English journalist and court reporter who wrote dozens of mystery novels and several dozens of short stories. He created many mystery series, one about the Department of Dead Ends and others about characters named Inspector Rason, Hugh Stanton, Jabez Winterbourne and Felicity Dove. |
| 3 | Vickers's first novel was "The Mystery of the Scented Death" (1921). His first sale to Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine was an inverted mystery story, "The Rubber Trumpet," which was collected with other Department of Dead Ends stories in 1949. |
| 4 | A prolific writer, Vickers also published mystery stories under the pseudonyms Sefton Kyle, David Durham and John Spencer. |
| 5 | His work was translated into various languages, and some of his stories were adapted for film and television. |
| 6 | A collection of 15 books by Vickers was priced at Christie's Auction House as worth between $400 and $500 in 2012. |
| 7 | Vickers and his wife Mary had one son. |
| 8 | Janet Wright, an English freelance journalist, wrote to an English history and genealogy message board in 2002 that she is the granddaughter of Lyle Vickers, who was the brother of Roy Vickers. She believes that "they seem to have been part of a very squabbling family" and that Lyle and Roy "were disinherited: Granpa for being a gambler and Roy for marrying a Boer.". |
| 9 | A 1921 vintage print photograph of Vickers is held at the National Portrait Gallery in London, England. |
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Le service des affaires classées | TV Series short story "All right all the night" - 1 episode, 1970 short story "The million-to-one chance" - 1 episode, 1970 short story "Wife missing" - 1 episode, 1970 short story "The man who could not hold women" - 1 episode, 1970 short story "The eight pieces of tortoise shell" - 1 episode, 1970 short story "The case of the honest murderer" - 1 episode, 1970 short story "The hair shirt" - 1 episode, 1970 short story "The case of the merry Andrew" - 1 episode, 1970 short story "The patchwork | ||
| Detective | TV Series story - 1 episode, 1968 writer - 1 episode, 1964 | ||
| A Question of Suspense | 1961 | novel | |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents | 1957-1958 | TV Series story - 3 episodes | |
| Girl in the News | 1940 | from the novel by | |
| False Evidence | 1937 | novel "I'll Never Tell" |
Known for movies
Le service des affaires classées (1970)
as Writer
Girl in the News (1940)
as Writer
A Question of Suspense (1961)
as Writer
False Evidence (1937)
as Writer