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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Going Back to Graceland

September 07, 2023 by Ray Betzner

A stroll among the headstones.

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September 07, 2023 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Don Izban, Graceland Cemetery, Ernie Banks, George Pullman, Field Museum, Marshall Field, Allan Pinkerton, Adam Selzer, Martin Ryerson, Peter Schoenhofen, Christopher D. Manuel

What is it we love about '221B'?

October 19, 2019 by Ray Betzner

‘221B’ Part 10, the final part (almost)

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October 19, 2019 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, 221B, Basil Rathbone, Billy Wilder, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, John Bennett Shaw Memorial Library Fund, Hounds of the Baskerville (sic), Graceland Cemetery
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A.K.A. Vincent Starrett

May 12, 2018 by Ray Betzner

Starrett used many names in his career.

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May 12, 2018 /Ray Betzner
Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett, Charles V.E. Starrett, Charles E.V. Starrett, Stephen Huguenot, Edgar Savage, Vincenzio, Vinpenny, Banners in the Dawn, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Inter-Ocean, Chicago Daily News, The Editor: The Journal of Life for Literary Workers, Lincolnana, Reedy's Mirror, True Detective, Short Stories, Column Poetrs, Jay Finley Christ, Jay Finch, Poetry magazine, Wisconsin State Journal, Weird Tales, Roy Franklin Dewey, Lucian Taylor, The Great Lakes Review, Charles L.P. Silet, Autolycus in Limbo, A Literary Anthology, The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare, Et Cetera, Pascal Covici, Charles Vincent Starrett, Graceland Cemetery, Christopher Morley

Going to Graceland

November 03, 2017 by Ray Betzner

The Last Bookman's headstone looks like a book.

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November 03, 2017 /Ray Betzner
Graceland Cemetery, Vincent Starrett, The Last Bookman, Rachel Latimer, Allan Pinkerton, Laura Page, Robert Mangler, The Hounds of the Baskerville (sic), The Needle

The Sherlockian world's most famous bookplate, Part 2

August 09, 2014 by Ray Betzner

Tracing the history of an iconic Sherlock Holmes image.

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August 09, 2014 /Ray Betzner
Fridolf Johnson, Vincent Starrett, University of Minnesota, Timothy Johnson, Cheryll Fong, Julie McKuras, Graceland Cemetery, University of Delaware, Susan Rice, Buena Oaks Hotel, A Baker Street Quartette, Edgar W. Smith, The Baker Street Irregulars Inc, The Somnambulist and the Detective, The Last Bookman, Treasury of Bookplates from the Renaissance to the Present
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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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