STARRETT, VINCENT (CHARLES VINCENT EMERSON STARRETT) — The Great Hotel Murder

Garden City, NY: The Crime Club, Inc, 1935. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and has a Good only dust jacket. The book is in generally clean, bright condition, with black cloth covers and red lettering and decoration to the spine. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. There are two small spots of rubbing / wear to the front book cover and a slight slant to the spine. The text pages are clean and bright. Both endpapers have generalized toning, and the foredges of the text block are uncut. The top edge of the text block is stained reddish orange, and both the foredge and bottome edges of the text block have spots of foxing. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and spots of wrinkling and rubbing, along with small chips missing. The original price of 2.00 dollars is on the top front flap of the dust jacket. The reverse of the dust jacket has a previous owner's taped repairs to the spine ends and flap edges. This book was originally published in Red Book Magazine under the title of "Recipe for Murder". "Starrett landed a job as a cub reporter with the Chicago Inter-Ocean in 1905. When that paper folded two years later he began working for the Chicago Daily News as a crime reporter, a feature writer, and finally a war correspondent in Mexico from 1914 to 1915. Starrett turned to writing mystery and supernatural fiction for pulp magazines during the 1920s and 1930s. In 1920, he wrote a Sherlock Holmes pastiche entitled The Adventure of the Unique "Hamlet". Starrett on at least one occasion said that the press-run was 100 copies, but on others claimed 200; a study of surviving copies by Randall Stock documents 110. This story involved the detective investigating a missing 1602 inscribed edition of Shakespeare's play Hamlet. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good in Good dust jacket .