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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Dedications

May 22, 2020 by Ray Betzner

Monkey glands, McCarthyites and the W.G.A.

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May 22, 2020 /Ray Betzner
Walter M. Hill, In Praise of Stevenson: An Anthology, W.C. Morrow, Ambrose Bierce, Rhymes for Collectors, Lilian Hartsig, Ebony Flame, Lilian Starrett, Bella Starrett, Banners in the Dawn, Thomas Kennedy, Buried Caesars, Robert Polk Starrett, Flame and Dust, Richard Le Gallienne, Coffins for Two, Fifteen More Poems, Charles Parsons, Ray Latimer, Seaports in the Moon, Ambrose Bierce: A bibliography, Penny Wise and Book Foolish, M.J. Latimer, Murder on B Deck, Stanley Starrett, Harold Starrett, Robert Starrett, The Blue Door, Edwin Baird, Dead Man Inside, Scott Cunningham, The End of Mr. Garment, Stirling Parkinson, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, William Gillette, Frederic Dorr Steele, Gray Chandler Briggs, Charles Honce, Midnight and Percy Jones, Persons From Porlock, Christopher Morley, Oriental Encounters, The Great Hotel Murder, Riley Blackwood, Books Alive, Bookman's Holiday, Georgia E. Bennett, Autolycus in Limbo, The Case-Book of Jimmie Lavender, Harry E. Maule, Ellery Queen, John H. Watson, Sherlock Holmes, Murder in Peking, Lin Yutang, Books and Bipeds, Book Column, Best Loved Books of the Twentieth Century, Wendell W. Goodpasture, Late Later and Possibly Last
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'A wider circulation'

October 19, 2019 by Ray Betzner

‘221B’ Part 6

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October 19, 2019 /Ray Betzner
Charles Collins, Chicago Tribune, Bookman's Holiday, 221B, Vincent Starrett, A Line O' Type or Two., Hounds of the Baskerville (sic)
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Reuse, Recycle, Reprint

September 07, 2019 by Ray Betzner

A Three Goose Problem.

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September 07, 2019 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Bookman's Holiday, Random House, Paul Galdone, Vergoose, Walter Klinefelter
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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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221B's First Public Appearance

October 05, 2017 by Ray Betzner

Starrett's sonnet has a coming out party

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October 05, 2017 /Ray Betzner
Charles Collins, The Hounds of the Baskerville (sic), Vincent Starrett, 221B, Chicago Tribune, A Line O' Type or Two., Bookman's Holiday, Two Sonnets, Christopher Morley, Edgar W. Smith, Sonnet on Baker Street, Autolycus in Limbo, Sherlock in the Trib, Ely Liebow, John Nieminski, Bowling Green, Saturday Review of Literature
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Recent additions to the collection

February 18, 2017 by Ray Betzner

Two new (to me) items commemorating significant events in Starrett's Sherlockian life.

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February 18, 2017 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Julian Wolff, Hugo's Companions, The Baker Street Irregulars, The Hounds of the Baskerville, Caxton Club, Otto Penzler, The Mysterious Bookshop, Stanley Pargellis, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Penny Wise and Book Foolish, Books Alive, Bookman's Holiday, The Chicago Tribune, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Encyclopedia Britannica, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Stephen Crane, George Gissing, Mark Twain, Sherington Hope, Sherrington Hope, Sage's Restaurant
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Books and Bipeds: Starrett at his best

September 24, 2016 by Ray Betzner

Why Books and Bipeds deserves a place on your shelf.

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September 24, 2016 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Ben Abramson, Argus Books, Books and Bipeds, Nova 57 Minor, Sherlock Holmes, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Bookman's Holiday, Penny Wise and Book Foolish, Buried Caesars
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