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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Otto Strikes Twice

January 26, 2019 by Ray Betzner

Two popular paperbacks

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January 26, 2019 /Ray Betzner
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Vincent Starrett, Otto Penzler, The Mysterious Bookshop, The Mysterious Library, Otto Penzler's Sherlock Holmes Library, The Macmillan Company, John Bennett Shaw, Tom Stix Jr., Robert Thomalen, Warner Books, Frederic Dorr Steele, William Gillette, Julian Symons, Pinnacle, Carl Sandburg, Christopher Morley
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Recent additions to the collection

February 18, 2017 by Ray Betzner

Two new (to me) items commemorating significant events in Starrett's Sherlockian life.

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February 18, 2017 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Julian Wolff, Hugo's Companions, The Baker Street Irregulars, The Hounds of the Baskerville, Caxton Club, Otto Penzler, The Mysterious Bookshop, Stanley Pargellis, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Penny Wise and Book Foolish, Books Alive, Bookman's Holiday, The Chicago Tribune, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Encyclopedia Britannica, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Stephen Crane, George Gissing, Mark Twain, Sherington Hope, Sherrington Hope, Sage's Restaurant
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The Autograph Habit

January 23, 2016 by Ray Betzner

Autographed and inscribed books make for great memories.

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January 23, 2016 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Penny Wise and Book Foolish, Otto Penzler, The Mysterious Bookshop, Steven Doyle, The Baker Street Irregulars, The Baker Street Journal, Mark Gagen, Bert Coules, Jenn Eaker, Matt Laffey, Scott Bond, Don Hobbs, Spain and Sherlock Holmes, 221B BBC, The Big Book of Sherlock 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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