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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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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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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One of "My Disciples," Part One

May 23, 2019 by Ray Betzner

Starrett and Honce: I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

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May 23, 2019 /Ray Betzner
Charles Honce, Vincent Starrett, Midnight and Percy Jones, Associated Press, The APME Red Book, A Vincent Starrett Library, Frederic Dorr Steele, The Adventures of Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass, A Sherlock Holmes Birthday, A Study in Scarlet, William Gillette, A Sherlock Holmes Birthday and other bookish stories conceived in the form of news

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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TPLOSH: This Time, it’s Personal

December 07, 2018 by Ray Betzner

My first copy.

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December 07, 2018 /Ray Betzner
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Vincent Starrett, Michael Murphy, Pinnacle, Baker Street Irregulars, Julian Wolff, Carl Sandburg, Ben Hecht, Will Oursler, Adrian Conan Doyle, William Gillette, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, The Sherlock Holmes Pub, Sidney Paget, Luther Norris, Pontine Press, The Sacred Writings
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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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The Great Hiatus, 1934-1960

November 02, 2018 by Ray Betzner

Between editions: 1934 to 1960

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November 02, 2018 /Ray Betzner
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Vincent Starrett, Christopher Morley, Edgar W. Smith, William Gillette, Alexander Woollcott, Long Long Ago, Baker Street Irregulars, Rachel Latimer, The Unique Hamlet, 221B, Persons From Porlock, 221B: Studies In Sherlock Holmes, The Singular Adventures of Martha Hudson, Books Alive, The Chicago Tribune, Profile by Gaslight, To a Very Literary Lady, The Painful Predicament of Sherlock Holmes:, Sherlock Holmes: A Play
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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 Bookman and his Dealer

March 14, 2015 by Ray Betzner

Ben Abramson was a book seller, a publisher and a dreamer.

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March 14, 2015 /Ray Betzner
Ben Abramson, Edgar W. Smith, Reading and Collecting magazine, The Baker Street Journal, Steven Rothman, Books and Bipeds, Autolycus in Limbo, The Painful Predicament of Sherlock Holmes, William Gillette, Christopher Morley, Argus Books, August Derleth, H.P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, P.M. Stone, James Keddie, Snow for Christmas
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Vincent Starrett and the 1934 Baker Street Irregulars Dinner

January 03, 2015 by Ray Betzner

Vincent Starrett, Alexander Woollcott, William Gillette and the 1934 Baker Street Irregulars Dinner

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January 03, 2015 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Christ Cella's, Alexander Woollcott, Baker Street Irregulars, Born in a Bookshop, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, William Gillette, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Henry Morton Robinson, Frederic Dorr Steele, While Rome Burns, Long Long Ago, Best Loved Books of the Twentieth Century, Parnassus on Wheels, The Hound of the Baskervilles
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