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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An inscription that makes no sense

March 20, 2020 by Ray Betzner

A weird book with an even odder inscription

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March 20, 2020 /Ray Betzner
The Sorcercer's Apprentice, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Mahlon Blaine, Ray Latimer, Vincent Starrett, Richard Herczel, Order of the Garter, Edward III, Goethe, Hietzsche, Frank Braun, Joseph DUnninger
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Who Was Lillian Hartsig?

May 09, 2019 by Ray Betzner

A Marriage Disolves

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May 09, 2019 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Lillian Starrett, Lillian Hartsig, Rachel Latimer, Ray Latimer, Fridolf Johnson, Lewis Wheeler Hartsig, Nellie McFarland O'Hara, Willis H. Pate
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"Souvneir de Sherlock"

January 06, 2019 by Ray Betzner

A 75-year-old signature explained.

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January 06, 2019 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Hounds of the Baskerville (sic), Charles Collins, Horace Bridges, Stanley Pargellis, A Line O' Type or Two., Newberry Library, Schlogl's, Yuichi Hirayma, Elaine Yao, Gayle Puhl, Peggy Purdue, Steve Rothman, Susumu Kobayashi, Ray Latimer, Shi Julin, SHi SHilun, Shi Gong, The Cases of Lord Shi
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Peking pays off: VS in the Forbidden City, Part 2

June 22, 2018 by Ray Betzner

The Products of Peking

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June 22, 2018 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Ray Latimer, The Laughing Buddha, Murder in Peking, Magna Publications, Born in a Bookshop, Charles Honce, Front Page Mysteries, Walter Edwards, Invincible Press, Editions Diderot, Meurte a Pekin, Valentine Isabel Johnston, Philadelphia Inquirer, Toronto Star, Oriental Encounters, Normandie House, Black Cat Press, Oriental Encounters: Two Essays in Bad Taste, Some Chinese Detective Stories, The Last Bookman
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Vincent Starrett in the Forbidden City, Part 1

June 08, 2018 by Ray Betzner

From Chicago to Peking

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June 08, 2018 /Ray Betzner
China, Vincent Starrett, Ray Latimer, Admiral William H. Allen, SS President Wilson, G.A. Henty, Great Wall of China, Born in a Bookshop, Cambuluc, Beijing, Yi Ying, Francois Villon, Warner Oland, Sino-Japanese War, Legation Quarter, Dollar Line
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Ray

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)

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