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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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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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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'So They Still Live For All That Love Them Well'

October 19, 2019 by Ray Betzner

'221B' Part 2

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October 19, 2019 /Ray Betzner
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Vincent Starrett, 221B, Gray Chandler Briggs, Elmer Davis, The Saturday Review of Literature, Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle & The Bookman, Susan Dahlinger, Les Klinger
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The Final 'Private Life' Problem

February 15, 2019 by Ray Betzner

What is it that we love about Private Life?

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February 15, 2019 /Ray Betzner
Otto Penzler, Steven Doyle, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Ray Betzner, Gray Chandler Briggs, Frederic Dorr Steele, William Gillette, Vincent Starrett
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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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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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A classic is born

September 20, 2018 by Ray Betzner

Private Life, Part 3.

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September 20, 2018 /Ray Betzner
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Vincent Starrett, The Macmillan Company, D.H. Friston, The Private Life of Helen of Troy, John Erksine, Desmond McCarthy, E.V. Knox, Macmillan and Company, Macmillan Company, Frederic Dorr Steele, William Gillette, D. H. Friston, Don Loving, Gray Chandler Briggs, Beeton's Christmas Annual, where it is always 1895
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A series of magazine stories

September 14, 2018 by Ray Betzner

Private Life, Part 2

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September 14, 2018 /Ray Betzner
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Real Detective, Mr. Holmes of Baker Street, Gray Chandler Briggs, The Atlantic Monthly, The Golden Book, The Bookman, Reader's Digest, Les Klinger, Susan Dahlinger, Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes Conan Doyle and The Bookman, Sherlock Holmes: Notes for a Biography, No. 221-B Baker Street, Ave Sherlock Morituri et Cetera
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