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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A series of magazine stories

September 14, 2018 by Ray Betzner

Private Life, Part 2

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September 14, 2018 /Ray Betzner
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Real Detective, Mr. Holmes of Baker Street, Gray Chandler Briggs, The Atlantic Monthly, The Golden Book, The Bookman, Reader's Digest, Les Klinger, Susan Dahlinger, Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes Conan Doyle and The Bookman, Sherlock Holmes: Notes for a Biography, No. 221-B Baker Street, Ave Sherlock Morituri et Cetera
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The Complete Publication History of 'The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes'

September 08, 2018 by Ray Betzner

Tracing the history of a classic.

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September 08, 2018 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Dear Starrett, Dear Briggs, John Nieminski, Jon L. Lellenberg, The Baker Street Irregulars, Reedy's Mirror, The Golden Book, Oscar Slater, George Edalji, Arthur Conan Doyle, Great Depression
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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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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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The story of his life

May 25, 2018 by Ray Betzner

Where are the missing pages of Starrett’s autobiography?

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May 25, 2018 /Ray Betzner
Born in a Bookshop, Vincent Starrett, Fanny Butcher, Basil Rathbone, Ben Hecht, H.L. Mencken, The Chicago Tribune, University of Oklahoma Press, Chapters from the Chicago Renasennce, Everland magazine, Poetry magazine, Collier's, Nicholas Utechin, Susan Dahlinger, Glen Miranker, Nick Utechin

A.K.A. Vincent Starrett

May 12, 2018 by Ray Betzner

Starrett used many names in his career.

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Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett, Charles V.E. Starrett, Charles E.V. Starrett, Stephen Huguenot, Edgar Savage, Vincenzio, Vinpenny, Banners in the Dawn, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Inter-Ocean, Chicago Daily News, The Editor: The Journal of Life for Literary Workers, Lincolnana, Reedy's Mirror, True Detective, Short Stories, Column Poetrs, Jay Finley Christ, Jay Finch, Poetry magazine, Wisconsin State Journal, Weird Tales, Roy Franklin Dewey, Lucian Taylor, The Great Lakes Review, Charles L.P. Silet, Autolycus in Limbo, A Literary Anthology, The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare, Et Cetera, Pascal Covici, Charles Vincent Starrett, Graceland Cemetery, Christopher Morley

"Chicago Murders" autograph party

April 19, 2018 by Ray Betzner

An illustrated guide to a signing party

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April 19, 2018 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Chicago Murders, Elizabeth Bullock, Nellise Child, Otto Eisenschiml, Leroy McHugh, Craig Rice, Sewell Peaslee Wright, Marie Rodell, Joan Daves, Marshall Field and Co., Duell, Duell Sloan and Pearce, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream, The Literary Spotlight, Fanny Butcher, Abraham Lincoln, Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Charles E. Honce, Allison-Lighthall Photographers

The Last Bookman's Bookplates

March 23, 2018 by Ray Betzner

Two rare bookplates join the list

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March 23, 2018 /Ray Betzner
Haldane MacFall, Fridolf Johnson, Crystal Kennedy, Gordon Browne, Charles Honce, Walter Klinefelter, Phiz, Hablot Knight Browne, Charles Dickens, Estrays, In Praise of Stevenson: An Anthology, Dickson's Close, Wallace Smith, Ben Hecht, The Hounds of the Baskerville (sic), Michael Murphy, The Sign of the Four, Conferment by Needle, T.S. Eliot, Livres Galantes

Salomé

March 10, 2018 by Ray Betzner

The two versions of a Starrett sonnet

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March 10, 2018 /Ray Betzner
Salome, Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, Estrays, Thomas Kennedy, George Seymour, Basil Thompson, THe Bookfellows of Chicago, King Herod, John the Baptist, Banners in the Dawn, Autolycus in Limbo
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"221B" fresh from Starrett's typewriter

February 21, 2018 by Ray Betzner

Autolycus in Limbo: The Manuscript

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February 21, 2018 /Ray Betzner
Autolycus in Limbo, Vincent Starrett, Charles Honce, A Vincent Starrett Library, William Rose Benet, 221B, E.P. Dutton, Edgar W. Smith, Hell, Hell Said the Duchess, Cherchez la Femme, Banners in the Dawn, The Golden Eagle Press, Sam A, Sam A Jacobs, The Public Papers of a Bibliomaniac, Ames W. Williams

Standing over his shoulder

February 09, 2018 by Ray Betzner

Watch Starrett at work

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February 09, 2018 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, O.Henry, Bennett Cerf, Van Cartmell, The Best Short Stories of O.Henry, Random House, Modern Library, Books Alive, Chicago Tribune, Pete's Tavern, Ely Liebow, Don Yates, David Morrill, Mike Kean, William Sydney Porter

The gift of "221B"

January 27, 2018 by Ray Betzner

A new translation of "221B"

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January 27, 2018 /Ray Betzner
221B, Edgar W. Smith, Vincent Starrett, Sonia Yazmadjian, And it it always 1895, Nicholas Regamey, Atelier Typographique de la Cité, Lausanne, Switzerland

Enter Riley Blackwood, Part 3: The Silver Screen

December 30, 2017 by Ray Betzner

Blackwood Makes his Movie Debut

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December 30, 2017 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Riley Blackwood, Recipe for Murder, The Great Hotel Murder, Victor Lowe, Edmund Lowe, VIctor McLaglen, Fox Film, Sol M. Wurtzel, Redbook magazine, Red Book Magazine, What Price Glory, The Quiet Man, John Wayne, Andy McCabe, Design for Death
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Enter Riley Blackwood, Part 2: Magazine, Books and the French

December 02, 2017 by Ray Betzner

Starrett's most successful novel.

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December 02, 2017 /Ray Betzner
The Great Hotel Murder, Caxton Press, Sun Dial Press, The Crime Club Inc., Riley Blackwood, Recipe for Murder, Redbook magazine, Le Crime De L'Hotel, Le Crime De L'Hotel Granada, Simone Lechevrel, Nouvelle Revue Critique
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Enter Riley Blackwood

November 15, 2017 by Ray Betzner

Starrett in Disguise

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November 15, 2017 /Ray Betzner
Redbook magazine, Riley Blackwood, Vincent Starrett, Recipe for Murder, The Great Hotel Murder, Jimmie Lavender, Walter Ghost, Murder on B Deck, Dead Man Inside, The End of Mr. Garment, Chicago Tribune, The Century of Progress

Going to Graceland

November 03, 2017 by Ray Betzner

The Last Bookman's headstone looks like a book.

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November 03, 2017 /Ray Betzner
Graceland Cemetery, Vincent Starrett, The Last Bookman, Rachel Latimer, Allan Pinkerton, Laura Page, Robert Mangler, The Hounds of the Baskerville (sic), The Needle

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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)

221B's First Public Appearance

October 05, 2017 by Ray Betzner

Starrett's sonnet has a coming out party

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October 05, 2017 /Ray Betzner
Charles Collins, The Hounds of the Baskerville (sic), Vincent Starrett, 221B, Chicago Tribune, A Line O' Type or Two., Bookman's Holiday, Two Sonnets, Christopher Morley, Edgar W. Smith, Sonnet on Baker Street, Autolycus in Limbo, Sherlock in the Trib, Ely Liebow, John Nieminski, Bowling Green, Saturday Review of Literature
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Mr. Starrett Collects Mr. Crane

September 13, 2017 by Ray Betzner

Bibliographies, booklets, articles and a late letter

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September 13, 2017 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Stephen Crane, Ames W. Williams, The Colophon, A bibliography of the Works of Stephen Crane, Harry Hansen, The Centaur Book Shop, John T. Winterich, Saturday Review of Literature, Maggie: A Girl of the Street, The Red Badge of Courage, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Legends by Stephen Crane, Men, Mem, Men Women and Books, Modern Library, "A Dark Brown Dog" by Stephen Crane, Stephen Crane: A Bibliography

Off topic: Margaret E. (Peggy) Henry, ASH

September 09, 2017 by Ray Betzner

Mrs. Hudson Heads Home

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September 09, 2017 /Ray Betzner
Charles E. Henry, Peggy Henry, Mrs. Hudson, Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes, Vincent Starrett, Cremona Fiddlers of Williamsburg
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