The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes in Japan, Part I
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes has had more lives than Professor Moriarty in the Universal film series. Here's the first part of a look at the book's appearances in Japan.
Read MoreThe Private Life of Sherlock Holmes has had more lives than Professor Moriarty in the Universal film series. Here's the first part of a look at the book's appearances in Japan.
Read MoreA Morgan Library display tells only part of the story of Tamerlane, Edgar Allan Poe's first book and one of the rarest books in American literature.
Read MoreThe Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine celebrated its most famous book reviewer with a feature story in 1969.
Read MoreMichael Kean, BSI, gives thoughtful consideration to Starrett's immortal sonnet "221B" in the Winter 2013 issue of the *The Baker Street Journal*. He starts by asking a natural question: "Why 1895?" The question is a good one. His thoughts on the matter are valuable and I will not spoil them here.
Naturally, I have my own theory.
Read More“The Menace of Mars” is a true oddity in the great library that is Vincent Starrett’s published works. It is a story about Martians, in which they never appear; it is tale of world domination in which earthlings, not aliens, are the bad guys; and it is one of the few times that Starrett collaborated with another writer.
Read MoreThe story of a 1908 book written by L. Frank Baum that was once owned by Vincent Starrett, given to Martin Gardner, and is now sitting on my shelf.
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