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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BSI’s first “official” dinner in the news

August 27, 2024 by Ray Betzner

Those crazy Sherlock Holmes fans

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August 27, 2024 /Ray Betzner
Baker Street Irregulars, Baker Street Irregulars Trust, Christopher Morley, Christ Cella's, Gene Tunney, Alexander Woollcott, Vincent Starrett, Associated Press, Burton Freund, William Gillette
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A ‘new’ report on the first official Baker Street Irregulars dinner

August 19, 2024 by Ray Betzner

The Press, Watson. . . .

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August 19, 2024 /Ray Betzner
Starrett’s Scrapbook, Harry Hansen, Alexander Woollcott, Christopher Morley, Baker Street Irregulars, Mattias Bostrom, Steven Rothman, Harrison "Terry" Hunt, Linda Hunt, Susan Dahlinger, The Baker Street Irregulars Trust, The New York Wold-Tribune, The Watertown Times, H.W. Bell, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Chicago Daily News, William Gillette, Gray Chandler Briggs, William Rose Benet, Steven Vincent Benet, Autolycus in Limbo, The Saturday Review of Literature
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Susan Rice Mentorship Award

August 05, 2022 by Ray Betzner

Nominate your favorite Sherlockian for the Susan Rice Mentorship Award

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August 05, 2022 /Ray Betzner
Susan Rice, Susan Rice Mentorship Award, Baker Street Irregulars, Sherlock Holmes, Curtis Armstrong, Peter Blau, Ashley Polasek, Jenn Eaker, Steven Rothman

Watching two Sherlockians at play

March 03, 2022 by Ray Betzner

Sherlockian Penpals

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March 03, 2022 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Cornelis Helling, Christopher Morley, Saturday Review of Literature, Jules Verne, Trade Winds, P.E.G. Quercus, Frederic Dorr Steele, Baker Street Journal, Baker Street Irregulars, Hounds of the Baskerville (sic), 221B: Studies In Sherlock Holmes, Some Reminiscences of An Old Sherlockian
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Best. Day. Ever. Part 1

November 30, 2021 by Ray Betzner

Starrett is honored by the city’s literary elite.

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November 30, 2021 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Louis Zara, Brillig, Chicago Tribune, Fanny Butcher, Hotel Sherman, Friends of the Chicago Public Library, Society of Midland Authors, Caxton Club, "Books Alive", Robert J. Casey, J. Finley Christ, Carl Sandburg, Lew Sarett, Frederic Babcock, Thornton Wilder, Russell McLaughlin, Baker Street Irregulars, Sherlockians, Burton Rascoe, Lucy Key Miller, Peter Ruber

'He has the collection mania in its most acute form.'

January 23, 2020 by Ray Betzner

The book haul from the Baker Street Irregulars weekend 2020

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January 23, 2020 /Ray Betzner
Baker Street Irregulars, Baker Street Irregulars Press, Gasogene Press, Wessex Press, Strand Bookstore, Otto Penzler, Mysterious Bookshop, The Third Cab, Speckled Band of Boston, James Keddie, Enola Stewart, Stevens Institute of Technology, Some Notes on a Meeting at Chisham, Robert John Bayer, Vincent Starrett, Magico Magazine, Ross Davies, The Baker Street Almanac, Sherlock Holmes in Inda, Jayantika Ganguly, Ray Reithmeier, Philip Bergem, The Norwegian Explorers, The Conan Doyle Review, Ashley Polasek, Marino Alvarez, Timothy Greer, Daniel Stashower, Constantine Rossakis, Robert Katz, The Milvertonians of Hampstead, Dancing to Death, The worst man in London, Nicholas Utechin, Mattias Bostom, Mark Alberstadt, Leah Guinn, Roy Pilot, Doug Elliott, Mark Gagen, Steven Doyle, The Sherlock Holmes Review, The Annotated Lost World, The Annotated White Company, N.C. Wyeth
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The Devon County Chronicle: Vincent Starrett Edition

January 09, 2020 by Ray Betzner

A fanzine’s affectionate festschrift

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January 09, 2020 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Robert Hahn, Robert Walter Hahn, Julie McKuras, The Devon County Chronicle, John Bennett Shaw, Ben Abramson, Argus Book Shop, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Baker Street Irregulars, Hounds of the Baskerville (sic), William S. Baring-Gould, James keddie Jr., Rex Stout, August Derleth, Julian Wolff, Charles Honce, Belden Wigglesworth, Hugo's Companions
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‘This facsimile is unique’

December 26, 2018 by Ray Betzner

The Book That Never Was

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December 26, 2018 /Ray Betzner
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Vincent Starrett, Michael Murphy, Andrew Fusco, Andy Fusco, Baker Street Irregulars, Julian Wolff, Autolycus Press

TPLOSH: This Time, it’s Personal

December 07, 2018 by Ray Betzner

My first copy.

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December 07, 2018 /Ray Betzner
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Vincent Starrett, Michael Murphy, Pinnacle, Baker Street Irregulars, Julian Wolff, Carl Sandburg, Ben Hecht, Will Oursler, Adrian Conan Doyle, William Gillette, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, The Sherlock Holmes Pub, Sidney Paget, Luther Norris, Pontine Press, The Sacred Writings
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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 Great Hiatus, 1934-1960

November 02, 2018 by Ray Betzner

Between editions: 1934 to 1960

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November 02, 2018 /Ray Betzner
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Vincent Starrett, Christopher Morley, Edgar W. Smith, William Gillette, Alexander Woollcott, Long Long Ago, Baker Street Irregulars, Rachel Latimer, The Unique Hamlet, 221B, Persons From Porlock, 221B: Studies In Sherlock Holmes, The Singular Adventures of Martha Hudson, Books Alive, The Chicago Tribune, Profile by Gaslight, To a Very Literary Lady, The Painful Predicament of Sherlock Holmes:, Sherlock Holmes: A Play
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Sherlock Holmes Comes Home

October 13, 2018 by Ray Betzner

Private Life Part 5

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October 13, 2018 /Ray Betzner
Gray Chandler Briggs, Camden House, The Empty House, 221B Baker Street, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Ronald Knox, Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes, Essays in Satire, S.C. Roberts, Doctor Watson: Prolegomena to the Study of A Biographical Problem, T.S. Blakeney, Sherlock Holmes: Fact or Fiction?, H.W. Bell, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: A Chronology of their adventures, Baker Street Irregulars, Ivor Nicholson and Watson
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October 24, 2017 by Ray Betzner

Rachel Latimer

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October 24, 2017 /Ray Betzner
Rachel Latimer, Ray Latimer, Vincent Starrett, Born in a Bookshop, Lillian Hartsig, Stewart Holbrook, The Laughing Buddha, Murder in Peking, Peter Ruber, University of Minnesota, Baker Street Irregulars, Christopher Morley, Edgar W. Smith, The Hounds of the Baskerville (sic)

Sincerely, Tony/Faithfully, Vincent

June 02, 2017 by Ray Betzner

Starrett and Boucher: Brothers in Sherlock

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June 02, 2017 /Ray Betzner
Anthony Boucher, Vincent Starrett, The Case of the Baker Street Irregular, Syaloch, Inspector Gregg, H. H. Holmes, Rocket to the Morgue, A Treasure of Great Science Fiction, Jeffrey Marks, Anthony Boucher: A Biobibliography, Sincerely Tony/Faithfully Vincent:, Roberg Hahn, The Hounds of the Baskerville (sic), Hugo's Companions, Baker Street Irregulars, Edgar W. Smith, Christopher Morley
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Vincent Starrett and the 1934 Baker Street Irregulars Dinner

January 03, 2015 by Ray Betzner

Vincent Starrett, Alexander Woollcott, William Gillette and the 1934 Baker Street Irregulars Dinner

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January 03, 2015 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Christ Cella's, Alexander Woollcott, Baker Street Irregulars, Born in a Bookshop, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, William Gillette, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Henry Morton Robinson, Frederic Dorr Steele, While Rome Burns, Long Long Ago, Best Loved Books of the Twentieth Century, Parnassus on Wheels, The Hound of the Baskervilles
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The Sherlockian world's most famous bookplate, Part 1

August 02, 2014 by Ray Betzner

How a bookplate created in 1931 became an iconic image of Sherlock Holmes.

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August 02, 2014 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Baker Street Irregulars, Edgar W. Smith, W. E. Butler, Sherlockian Bookplates, Fridolf Johnson, Banners in the Dawn, Fifteen More Poems, Charles Honce, University of Minnesota, Philip Hench Collection, Arthur Parsons, Lillian Starrett, Yale University, Arthur Machen, Walter M. Hill, Salome, University of Delaware, Dickson's Close, The Book of Old England, Monologue in Baker Street, Chicago Tribune, Dr. Watson's Mind Read by Master, The Baker Street Journal, Christmas Annual, Susan Rice, A Baker Street Quartette, The Somnambulist and the Detective, The Last Bookman, Graceland Cemetery, Treasury of Bookplates from the Renaissance to the Present
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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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