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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Hunting the elusive Starrett arcana

May 14, 2025 by Ray Betzner

Where are the lost stories from Starrett’s autobiography?

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May 14, 2025 /Ray Betzner
Moby Dick, Sherlock Holems, Vincent Starrett, Peter Blau, Patricia Albright, Patricia Rachel Albright, SPODE, LORE, Born in a Bookshop, Fanny Butcher, Chicago Tribune, University of Oklahoma Press, University of Chicago Press, Random House, Society of Midland Authors, Carroll G. Bowen, Harry Hansen

Unpacking The Book Collector’s Packet

February 04, 2025 by Ray Betzner

From a Fragment of Autobiography to Holiday Books.

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February 04, 2025 /Ray Betzner
The Black Cat Press, Walter Klinefelter, Vincent Starrett, Autobiography, Born in a Bookshop, The Book Collector’s Packet, Irvin Haas, The American Book Collector, Otis At Bunker Hill, Lynd Ward, Fragment of Autobiography, A Bibliographical Check-List of Christmas Books, Southworth-Anthoensen Press, Christmas Books, Christopher Morley, Luther A Brewer, Torch Press, Books about Poictesme, An Essay in Imaginative Bibliography, James Branch Cabell, Norman W. Forgue, Thomas N. Fairbanks, Ex Libris A. Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes

'I know him from the photograph.' – The Man with the Twisted Lip

October 08, 2024 by Ray Betzner

“You have the photograph?”

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October 08, 2024 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Dan Loving, Don Loving, Ben Hecht, Chicago Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Burton Rascoe, Stanley Starrett, Hugh Young, Robert Polk Starrett, Margaret Dennison Starrett, Vera Cruz, Peter Ruber, The Last Bookman, Oppenheim's, Eugene Hutchinson, Jimmie Lavender, Rachel Latimer, Books Aive
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BSI’s first “official” dinner in the news

August 27, 2024 by Ray Betzner

Those crazy Sherlock Holmes fans

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August 27, 2024 /Ray Betzner
Baker Street Irregulars, Baker Street Irregulars Trust, Christopher Morley, Christ Cella's, Gene Tunney, Alexander Woollcott, Vincent Starrett, Associated Press, Burton Freund, William Gillette
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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

Walter Klinefelter in Portrait and Profile, Part 1

May 09, 2024 by Ray Betzner

Profile of a Shy Sherlockian

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May 09, 2024 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Walter Klinefelter, York College, All About Mother Goose, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes in Portrait and Profile, Julie Rosenblatt, Al Rosenblatt, Harrison "Terry" Hunt, Linda Hunt, Jon L. Lellenberg, Aboriginals, Origins of Sherlock Holmes, The Saturday Review of Literature, Frank V. Morley, Christopher Morley, Arthur Machen, Tom O'Bedlam and his Song, The Apellicon Press, The Merrymount Press

'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

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

Vincent Starrett in Space

October 05, 2023 by Ray Betzner

A touch of the outre

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October 05, 2023 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Everett F. Bleiler, T.E. Kikty, Melvin Korshak, University of Minnesota Anderson Library, The Checklist of Fantastic Literature, The Best Science Fiction Stories, 1950, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ray Bradbury, Frederic Brown, seaports in the Moon, Richard LaGallienne, Prose Fancies, James Branch Cabell, Coffins for Two, Pascal Covici, Smart Set, Wayside Tales, All's Well, Arthur Machen, Robert Louis Stevenson, The head of cromwell, John Kendrick Bangs, Associated Shades, The Pursuit of the House-Boat, The Quick and the Dead, Penelope, The Sinless Village, Footsteps of Fear
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New views of Peking with Vincent and Ray

September 28, 2023 by Ray Betzner

New images from an old vacation

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September 28, 2023 /Ray Betzner
The Laughing Buddha, Vincent Starrett, Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum, Jennifer Hornsby, Yi Ying, Dollar Line, SS President Coolidge, Rachel Latimer, Carmen Valentino, Steven Rothman, Helen Burton, Camel's Bell gift shop, Peter Ruber, The Last Bookman, Ida Pruitt, L.C. Arlington

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

Merry Christmas Mr. Moore

April 15, 2023 by Ray Betzner

A Sherlockian treasure went to the Weird of Warrenville. Why?

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April 15, 2023 /Ray Betzner
"221B", Vincent Starrett, The Weird of Warrenville, Edward Martin Moore, Sherlockiana: Two Sonnets, Edwin B. Hill, Christopher Morley, Starrett Smiley, Sonnet on Baker Street, Brillig, Pojny Barn Press, Larry Porter, Strutt Moore

Brothers of the Book

March 17, 2023 by Ray Betzner

Pierrot & Pirates!

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March 17, 2023 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Charles E. Honce, Laurence Woodworth, Kendall Banning, Mon Ami Pierrot, Pirates!, Don Quixote, Brothers of the Book, Fanny Butcher

Mord i folio

January 25, 2023 by Ray Betzner

A long-sought volume, a generous gift

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January 25, 2023 /Ray Betzner
Mattias Bostom, From Holmes to Sherlock, The Unique Hamlet, Vincent Starrett, Tage la Cage, Thure Nyman, Bodil Hagbrink, Lillian De la Torre, Ernest Bramah, Lawrence Blochman, Swedish, Mord i folio

VS & TS

January 13, 2023 by Ray Betzner

The Bookman and The Poet

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January 13, 2023 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Conferment by Needle, Michael Murphy, Chicago Tribune, Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, "221B", Baker Street Irregulars Trust, Poetry magazine, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The Complete Sherlock holmes Short Stories, Criterion, Murder in the Cathedral, Chris Redmond, Priscilla Preston, Macavity the mystery cat, Cats, Books Alive

Standing over his shoulder

November 15, 2022 by Ray Betzner

The Dylan Thomas Files

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November 15, 2022 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Dylan Thomas, Little, Little Brown, Dylan Thomas in America, Caitlin Thomas, Saturday Review, New York Herald Tribune, Under Milk Wood, Herald Tribune, binnin

A New Seaport in the Moon

April 26, 2022 by Ray Betzner

An alternative ending written by the author.

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April 26, 2022 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Seaports in the Moon, Ames W. Williams, Stephen Crane: A Bibliography, Stephen Crane, Legends by Stephen Crane, Edwin Bliss Hill, Doubleday

Vincent Starrett, Disciple or Thief?

March 21, 2022 by Ray Betzner

‘Starrett is again pirating my property.’

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March 21, 2022 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Arthur Machen, The Shining Pyramid, The Glorious Mystery, Knopf, Borzoi Books, Covici-McGee, Michael Murphy, Autolycus Press, Arthur Machen: A Novelist of Ecstacy and Sin, The Secret Glory, Fanny Butcher, Montgomery Evans, Sue Strong Hassler, Donal M. Hassler, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Hunter Stagg
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Watching two Sherlockians at play

March 03, 2022 by Ray Betzner

Sherlockian Penpals

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March 03, 2022 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Cornelis Helling, Christopher Morley, Saturday Review of Literature, Jules Verne, Trade Winds, P.E.G. Quercus, Frederic Dorr Steele, Baker Street Journal, Baker Street Irregulars, Hounds of the Baskerville (sic), 221B: Studies In Sherlock Holmes, Some Reminiscences of An Old Sherlockian
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