Studies in Starrett

Studies in Starrett

An exploration of the works of Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett

(October 26, 1886 – January 5, 1974)

Curated by Ray Betzner
Original content owned and copyrighted by Ray Betzner

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Mord i folio

January 25, 2023 by Ray Betzner

A long-sought volume, a generous gift

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January 25, 2023 /Ray Betzner
Mattias Bostom, From Holmes to Sherlock, The Unique Hamlet, Vincent Starrett, Tage la Cage, Thure Nyman, Bodil Hagbrink, Lillian De la Torre, Ernest Bramah, Lawrence Blochman, Swedish, Mord i folio

'He has the collection mania in its most acute form.'

January 23, 2020 by Ray Betzner

The book haul from the Baker Street Irregulars weekend 2020

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January 23, 2020 /Ray Betzner
Baker Street Irregulars, Baker Street Irregulars Press, Gasogene Press, Wessex Press, Strand Bookstore, Otto Penzler, Mysterious Bookshop, The Third Cab, Speckled Band of Boston, James Keddie, Enola Stewart, Stevens Institute of Technology, Some Notes on a Meeting at Chisham, Robert John Bayer, Vincent Starrett, Magico Magazine, Ross Davies, The Baker Street Almanac, Sherlock Holmes in Inda, Jayantika Ganguly, Ray Reithmeier, Philip Bergem, The Norwegian Explorers, The Conan Doyle Review, Ashley Polasek, Marino Alvarez, Timothy Greer, Daniel Stashower, Constantine Rossakis, Robert Katz, The Milvertonians of Hampstead, Dancing to Death, The worst man in London, Nicholas Utechin, Mattias Bostom, Mark Alberstadt, Leah Guinn, Roy Pilot, Doug Elliott, Mark Gagen, Steven Doyle, The Sherlock Holmes Review, The Annotated Lost World, The Annotated White Company, N.C. Wyeth
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Charm and ‘Scholarship’

November 23, 2018 by Ray Betzner

The second British invasion.

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November 23, 2018 /Ray Betzner
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Vincent Starrett, George Allen & Unwil, Allen and Unwin, Gavin Brend, James Holroyd, My Dear Holmes, Baker Street By-Ways, University of Chicago Press, A Study in Scarlet, J.R.R. Tolkein, The Hobbit, Mattias Bostom, From Holmes to Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes Society of London
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A new look at the sonnet "221B"

August 15, 2015 by Ray Betzner

A world-class sonnet gets an international treatment

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August 15, 2015 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, 221-B, Sonnet, Baker Street Babes, Maria Fleischhack, Translating Vincent Starrett’s Sonnet “221B” (“Always 1895”), Mattias Bostom, Jim Ballinger, Bruce Holmes
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The Bookman, the School Teacher, and the Other Bookman

February 28, 2015 by Ray Betzner

Can you solve the riddle of the second bookman in this posting?

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February 28, 2015 /Ray Betzner
Otto Penzler, Mattias Bostom, Evelyn Byrne, The Mysterious Bookshop, Attacks of Taste, Elizabeth Barrett Browning Junior High School, New York Daily News, Buckminster Fuller, Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Born in a Bookshop, G.A. Henty, University of Oklahoma Press, Sonnets from the Sherlockeuse
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