Trivia

A 1921 vintage print photograph of Vickers is held at the National Portrait Gallery in London, England.

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.".

Vickers and his wife Mary had one son.

A collection of 15 books by Vickers was priced at Christie's Auction House as worth between $400 and $500 in 2012.

His work was translated into various languages, and some of his stories were adapted for film and television.

A prolific writer, Vickers also published mystery stories under the pseudonyms Sefton Kyle, David Durham and John Spencer.

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.

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.

Vickers graduated from Charterhouse School, Surrey, and Brasenose College, Oxford, in England.