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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Walter Klinefelter in Portrait and Profile, Part 2

May 13, 2024 by Ray Betzner

The long relationship between Starrett and Klinefelter

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May 13, 2024 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Walter Klinefelter, Sherlock Holmes in Portrait and Profile, Ex Libris A Conan Doyle, Black Cat Press, Normal Forgue, Dale Nichols, A Conversation with Vincent Starrett, George Steele Seymour, Books Alive, Chicago Tribune, Syracuse University Press, Andersen Library, University of Minnesota, Schocken Books, Baker Street Journal, A Packet of Sherlockian Bookplates, James Lamar Weygard, Private Press of the Indiana Kid, Fridolf Johnson, Origins of Sherlock Holmes, Gaslight Publications, Self Portraits by Vincent Starrett, Gene Markey, Phil K Davis, Sumac Press

Vincent Starrett Goes Clubbing

November 24, 2023 by Ray Betzner

Among Chicago’s Cliff Dwellers

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November 24, 2023 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Scott Monty, Cliff Dwellers, Charles Collins, A Line O' Type or Two., Born in a Bookshop, University of Minnesota, University of Minnesota Anderson Library, Ribston Pippins, Steven DOyle, Jim Montgomery, The Baker Street Irregulars, Clan na Gael, Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Chicago Literary Lions, Fanny Butcher

Vincent Starrett on the Run

October 29, 2023 by Ray Betzner

A psychological chase that ends in death.

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October 29, 2023 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, The Fugitive, The Golden Book, Tip Top Tales, Escape, William Conrad, Arkham House, August Derleth, Duplessis, Lemieux, Poe, John Alan Maxwell, Saint-Just, Tip Top Stories, Coffins for Two, The Quick and the Dead, The Creative Writer, University of Minnesota

Afterthoughts and acknowledgments

October 19, 2019 by Ray Betzner

221B Part 11.

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October 19, 2019 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Basil Rathbone, University of Minnesota, Julie McKuras, Timothy Johnson, Steven Rothman, Steve Rothman, Mark Gagen, Jon L. Lellenberg, "Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon", Edward R. Murrow, Les Klinger, Susan Dahlinger, Susan Rice, Don Yates, Amand J. Field, The Wartime films of Sherlock Holmes, England's Secret Weapon
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Introduction and prologue: 'Where it is always 1895.'

October 19, 2019 by Ray Betzner

'221B' Part 1

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October 19, 2019 /Ray Betzner
221B, Vincent Starrett, University of Minnesota, Don Yates, The Baker Street Journal, where it is always 1895, Edward R. Murrow, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Born in a Bookshop, The Phoenix magazine

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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)

From the Library of "Ellery Queen"

June 22, 2017 by Ray Betzner

A little book with a big signature.

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June 22, 2017 /Ray Betzner
Ellery Queen, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Mystery League, Crime and Detection (Second Series), Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, R. Austin Freeman, Dorothy L. Sayers, G.K. Chesterson, Fridolf Johnson, Foyles, Barnaby Ross, Frederic Dannay, Manfred Lee, University of Minnesota, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Unique Hamlet
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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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