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

BSI weekend 2022

January 21, 2022 by Ray Betzner

A BSI weekend fill with precious memories

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January 21, 2022 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, BSI weekend, BSI dinner, Michael Kean, Glen Miranker, Grolier Club, Murder on B Deck, Otto Penzler, Mysterious Bookshop, Charles Perry, Jacqueline Bost Morris, Ashley Polasek, Steven DOyle, Mickey Fromkin, Susan Rice, Curtis Armstrong, Peter Blau, Jenn Eaker, Janice Fischer, Lyndsay Faye, The Great Hotel Murder, ACD Society, MIchael Kean, Frederic Dorr Steele, Sidney Page, Oyster Bar, Grand Central, SPODE, LORE, Yale Club, Jim Hawkins, Tim Johson, Ira Matetsky, 221B, Susan Rice Mentorship Award

The Great Hotel Murder, Redux

September 16, 2020 by Ray Betzner

Riley Blackwood’s debut novel gets a loving new edition.

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September 16, 2020 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Otto Penzler, Lyndsay Faye, The Great Hotel Murder, Redbook magazine, Riley Blackwood
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“Sally you’re simply great!”

September 05, 2020 by Ray Betzner

His gal Sally

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September 05, 2020 /Ray Betzner
The Bloody Crescendo, Murder at the opera, A Box at the Opera, Ellery Queen, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Vincent Starrett, Peter Ruber, Otto Penzler, The Mysterious Press, Sally Cardiff, Arnold Castle, The Robber Kitten

'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 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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Otto Strikes Twice

January 26, 2019 by Ray Betzner

Two popular paperbacks

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January 26, 2019 /Ray Betzner
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Vincent Starrett, Otto Penzler, The Mysterious Bookshop, The Mysterious Library, Otto Penzler's Sherlock Holmes Library, The Macmillan Company, John Bennett Shaw, Tom Stix Jr., Robert Thomalen, Warner Books, Frederic Dorr Steele, William Gillette, Julian Symons, Pinnacle, Carl Sandburg, Christopher Morley
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"The finest … of Holmesian scholarship"

October 24, 2018 by Ray Betzner

The finest flowering of Holmesian scholarship

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October 24, 2018 /Ray Betzner
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Howard Haycraft, The Art of the Mystery Story, Murder for Pleasure, Twentieth Century Authors, Edmund Wilson, Dorothy L. Sayers, Rex Stout, "Watson was a Woman", Ellery Queen, THe Life and Times of the Detective Story, Otto Penzler
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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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The Autograph Habit

January 23, 2016 by Ray Betzner

Autographed and inscribed books make for great memories.

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January 23, 2016 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Penny Wise and Book Foolish, Otto Penzler, The Mysterious Bookshop, Steven Doyle, The Baker Street Irregulars, The Baker Street Journal, Mark Gagen, Bert Coules, Jenn Eaker, Matt Laffey, Scott Bond, Don Hobbs, Spain and Sherlock Holmes, 221B BBC, The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes
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Vincent Starrett among the Critics, Part 2: Electric (Purple) Boogaloo.

April 24, 2015 by Ray Betzner

This is the second in an occasional series that looks at how Starrett’s work was judged by critics, historians and reference guides.

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April 24, 2015 /Ray Betzner
Otto Penzler, Chris Steinbrunner, Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, Charles E. Henry, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The Unique Hamlet, McGraw-Hill, The Great Hotel Murder
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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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A Case of Identity: Vincent Starrett among the critics, Part 1

February 07, 2015 by Ray Betzner

The first part of a series looking at how critics have evaluated Vincent Starrett's overall contributions to the mystery genre.

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February 07, 2015 /Ray Betzner
Howard Haycraft, The Art of the Mystery Story, Murder for Pleasure, The University of Minnesota, Elmer L. Davis Library, Midnight and Percy Jones, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Vincent Starrett, Ellery Queen, Dorothy L. Sayers, Rex Stout, Otto Penzler
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