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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'Some new and poignant loveliness'

January 31, 2024 by Ray Betzner

An Estray in New York

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January 31, 2024 /Ray Betzner
Estrays, Vincent Starrett, THe Bookfellows of Chicago, Wilbur Underwood, R.L.S., Robert Louis Stevenson, McSorley's Old Ale House, Otto Penzler, Mysterious Bookshop, Argosy Books, Grand Central Termiinal, Times Square, New York Public Library, Winnie the Pooh, Charles Dickens, Max Beerbohm, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Kennedy, George Seymour, Basil Thompson, The Camelot Press, Longfellow, L'Envoy, Hart Crane, Chicago Daily News, Ebony Flame, Flame and Dust, Banners in the Dawn

Vincent Starrett in Space

October 05, 2023 by Ray Betzner

A touch of the outre

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October 05, 2023 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Everett F. Bleiler, T.E. Kikty, Melvin Korshak, University of Minnesota Anderson Library, The Checklist of Fantastic Literature, The Best Science Fiction Stories, 1950, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ray Bradbury, Frederic Brown, seaports in the Moon, Richard LaGallienne, Prose Fancies, James Branch Cabell, Coffins for Two, Pascal Covici, Smart Set, Wayside Tales, All's Well, Arthur Machen, Robert Louis Stevenson, The head of cromwell, John Kendrick Bangs, Associated Shades, The Pursuit of the House-Boat, The Quick and the Dead, Penelope, The Sinless Village, Footsteps of Fear
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Christopher Morley enters the scene

January 03, 2021 by Ray Betzner

Finding Bliss in Ysleta, Part 3

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January 03, 2021 /Ray Betzner
Christopher Morley, Vincent Starrett, A Vincent Starrett Library, Charles E. Honce, Edwin B. Hill, Edwin Bliss Hill, Carolyn Wells, Michael Gross, Wisteria Lodge, Collier's Weekly, Frederic Dorr Steele, Stephen Vincent Benet, The Bookman, Arthur Bartlett Maurice, William Rose Benet, Dupin, Poe, Arthur Conan Douyle, John Valentine, Arthur Conan Doyle, Stephen Crane: A Bibliography, Stephen Crane, A message for Vincent Starrett, 221B, Anthony Boucher, Elmer Davis
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Sherlockiana: The little leaflets at the start of a movement

January 03, 2021 by Ray Betzner

Finding Bliss in Ysleta, Part 2

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January 03, 2021 /Ray Betzner
Sherlockiana, Edward B. Hill, Edwin B. Hill, Edwin Bliss Hill, Ysleta, Vincent Starrett, Sherlock Holmes, Cornelis Helling, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Christopher Morley, E.E. Kellett, Monody on the Death of Sherlock Holmes, Ronald Knox, Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes, The Final Problem, Cambridge University, The Case of the Missing Patriarchs, Logan Clendening, John Myers Myers, Charles E. Honce, A Vincent Starrett Library, "Scotland Yard", "To William Gillette: On his return to the stage in 'Sherlock Holmes' ", To a Very Literary Lady, To an Undiscerning Critic, Arthur Conan Doyle, Some Piquant People, Lincoln Springfield, Dr. Joseph Bell
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Revised and Enlarged

November 09, 2018 by Ray Betzner

A Classic is Reborn

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November 09, 2018 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The Unique Hamlet, 221-B, Alexander Woollcott, Gray Chandler Briggs, Christopher Morley, Peter Cushing, Andre Morrell, Ronald Howard, Adrian Conan Doyle, The Golden Book, University of Chicago, University of Chicago Press, William Gillette, Basil Rathbone, Arthur Conan Doyle, Frederic Dorr Steele, H.W. Bell, Elmer Davis, Morley, The Singular Adventures of Martha Hudson, Catherine Cooke, The Baker Street Journal, Edgar W. Smith, Baker Street Studies, Profile by Gaslight, Bookman's Holiday, John Bennett Shaw, Baker Street Irregulars
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The Complete Publication History of 'The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes'

September 08, 2018 by Ray Betzner

Tracing the history of a classic.

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September 08, 2018 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Dear Starrett, Dear Briggs, John Nieminski, Jon L. Lellenberg, The Baker Street Irregulars, Reedy's Mirror, The Golden Book, Oscar Slater, George Edalji, Arthur Conan Doyle, Great Depression
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From the Library of "Ellery Queen"

June 22, 2017 by Ray Betzner

A little book with a big signature.

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June 22, 2017 /Ray Betzner
Ellery Queen, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Mystery League, Crime and Detection (Second Series), Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, R. Austin Freeman, Dorothy L. Sayers, G.K. Chesterson, Fridolf Johnson, Foyles, Barnaby Ross, Frederic Dannay, Manfred Lee, University of Minnesota, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Unique Hamlet
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A Unique Book

January 12, 2017 by Ray Betzner

An old friend shines new light on Starrett's trip to Peking.

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January 12, 2017 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Arthur Conan Doyle, Roy Pilot, Mary Celeste, Marie Celeste, The Strand Magazine, Murder in Peking, Cornhill magazine, j. habakuk Jephson, Memories and Adventures, The Horror of the Heights, abel fosdyk, The Annotated Lost World, Wessex Press, Al Rodin
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Off Topic: Ely M. Liebow

October 21, 2016 by Ray Betzner

Remembering the sweet, smart, gentile Irregular who unearthed the details behind Joe Bell's life.

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October 21, 2016 /Ray Betzner
Ely Liebow, Don Yates, David Morrill, Michael Kean, Ely M. Liebow, Dr. Joe Bell: Model for Sherlock Holmes, Joe Bell, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Nieminski, Pete's Tavern, Hotel Algonquin, Mark Gagen, Steven Doyle
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The Return of ‘Studies in Starrett’

July 23, 2016 by Ray Betzner

Two Gifts

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July 23, 2016 /Ray Betzner
Ross Davies, Peter Blau, Peter E. Blau, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Coffins for Two, Vincent Starrett, Red Circle of Washington, Ben Abramson, Sons of the Copper Beeches, Arthur Conan Doyle, University of Edinburgh, Haverford College
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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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Irving S. Cutter: Lost Baker Street Irregular or Found Hound?

May 17, 2014 by Ray Betzner

The tale of a Chicago doctor, writer and book collector and his curious relationship to Starrett and the Baker Street Irregulars.

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May 17, 2014 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Dr. Irving S. Cutter, The Case-Book of Jimmie Lavender, The Hounds of the Baskerville, Baker Street Journal, Baker Street Irregulars, BSI, Chicago, Sherlock Holmes, Born in a Bookshop, Books Alive, Galter Health Sciences Library, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Passavant Hospital, Arthur Conan Doyle
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