A Student of Starrett
A little talk about Vincent Starrett for the Red Circle of Washington.
Read More“That Gap on the Second Shelf”
Vincent Starrett works that I want, but can't afford or can't find.
Read MoreThe Jimmie/Jimmy Problem
Why can't these publications get the name of his most famous detective right?
Read MoreThe Autograph Habit
Autographed and inscribed books make for great memories.
Read More"Education never ends, Watson"
Reflections, corrections, additions and other stuff as the year turns.
Read More"Christmases Remembered"
A gift of pearls for this holiday season, courtesy of Vincent Starrett
Read More“Your photographs are not unlike you.”
A “new” Vincent Starrett photograph and the mystery that comes with it.
Read MoreStarrett and Lovecraft: Lovers of the Macabre
It’s Halloween, the right time to talk about Vincent Starrett and the man behind the Cthulhu mythos: Howard Phillips Lovecraft.
Read More“His friend Burt”
Starrett pens a child's tale that features a character named for one of the most cantankerous book critics of his time.
Read MoreA new look at the sonnet "221B"
A world-class sonnet gets an international treatment
Read MoreIn the library with VS
In which we check out books by Starrett printed especially for use in libraries.
Read MoreIn the theater with VS
Starrett recounts what it was like seeing William Gillette on the stage in *Sherlock Holmes*.
Read MoreVincent Starrett solves a mystery by calling in a Ghost
Intentional or not, this is Starrett's most humorous mystery.
Read MoreOff Topic: Charles E. Henry Jr., PhD, BSI
A profile of one of the best and wisest men I have ever known.
Read MoreVincent Starrett among the Critics, Part 2: Electric (Purple) Boogaloo.
This is the second in an occasional series that looks at how Starrett’s work was judged by critics, historians and reference guides.
Read MoreA Student of Catalogues
Wherein Vincent Starrett extols the delights in book catalogues and thereby opens a door into a pleasure that is slowly slipping away.
Read MoreMissing Ambrose Bierce
The story of how Vincent Starrett missed Ambrose Bierce and turned it into a worldwide news story.
Read MoreA Bookman and his Dealer
Ben Abramson was a book seller, a publisher and a dreamer.
Read MoreThe Bookman, the School Teacher, and the Other Bookman
Can you solve the riddle of the second bookman in this posting?
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