“the hidden wickedness” [COPP]
Vincent Starrett eventually became the dean of American Sherlockians, widely recognized as the foremost expert and significant collector, in part due to his publication of The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes in 1933. This month’s Morley-Montgomery Award episode comes to us from Starrett expert Ray Betzner, BSI (”The Agony Column”) from Vol. 57, No. 3 of The Baker Street Journal.
But before that book made its way to the public, a chapter appeared in a rather unusual place. For Starrett, who was accustomed to his Jimmy Lavender series appearing in, shall we say, less than family-friendly places, his Sherlock Holmes material appearing there must have been just a Trifle.
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