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 drop of ink, a moving pen, and a Word'

November 02, 2019 by Ray Betzner

Starrett resurrects an essay on writing

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November 02, 2019 /Ray Betzner
John McClure, John Peebles McClure, New Orleans Times-Picayune, The Double Dealer, The Wave, Vincent Starrett, Edwin B. Hill, Ysleta, Burton Rascoe, Llewellyn Jones, Thomas Kennedy, Hart Crane, Sherwood Anderson, Ink
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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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What is it we love about '221B'?

October 19, 2019 by Ray Betzner

‘221B’ Part 10, the final part (almost)

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October 19, 2019 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, 221B, Basil Rathbone, Billy Wilder, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, John Bennett Shaw Memorial Library Fund, Hounds of the Baskerville (sic), Graceland Cemetery
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'Something remains of London in 1895'

October 19, 2019 by Ray Betzner

‘221B’ Part 9

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"221B", Hounds of the Baskerville (sic), Vincent Starrett, Baker Street Journal, Julian Wolff, John Bennett Shaw, Michael Murphy, John Ruyle, August Derleth, The Soft-nosed Bullet-in, Baker Street Babes, Susan Rice, The Somnambulist and the Detective
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"This poem by my good friend Vincent Starrett"

October 19, 2019 by Ray Betzner

‘221B’ Part 8

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October 19, 2019 /Ray Betzner
Profile by Gaslight, Edgar W. Smith, Basil Rathbone, Vincent Starrett, 221B, The Baker Street Journal, In and Out of Character, Autolycus in Limbo, Christopher Morley, Sonnet on Baker Street
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'Part of a slim volume"

October 19, 2019 by Ray Betzner

‘221B’ Part 7

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Edgar W. Smith, Vincent Starrett, Autolycus in Limbo, William Rose Benet, Richard Hart, Baltimore Evening Sun, To a Very Literary Lady, E.P. Dutton, Charles Honce
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'A wider circulation'

October 19, 2019 by Ray Betzner

‘221B’ Part 6

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Charles Collins, Chicago Tribune, Bookman's Holiday, 221B, Vincent Starrett, A Line O' Type or Two., Hounds of the Baskerville (sic)
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“He has done many little things for me."

October 19, 2019 by Ray Betzner

‘221B’ Part 5

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Edwin B. Hill, Ysleta, Vincent Starrett, Christopher Morley, Sherlockiana, Edgar W. Smith
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'Here dwell together still two men of note'

October 19, 2019 by Ray Betzner

‘221B’ Part 4

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221B, Vincent Starrett, Starrett Speaks, Wessex Press, Carl Sandburg, Edgar W. Smith, Christopher Morley
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“Some of the most dramatic months… of contemporary history”

October 19, 2019 by Ray Betzner

‘221B’ Part 3

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Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon, 221B, Baker Street, Vincent Starrett, The Blitz, Edward R. Murrow, Archibald MacLeish, 221B: Studies in Sherlock Holmes.
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'So They Still Live For All That Love Them Well'

October 19, 2019 by Ray Betzner

'221B' Part 2

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The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Vincent Starrett, 221B, Gray Chandler Briggs, Elmer Davis, The Saturday Review of Literature, Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle & The Bookman, Susan Dahlinger, Les Klinger
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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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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

"Our Correspondent Wounded!"

October 05, 2019 by Ray Betzner

More than a century later, can we learn the truth?

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Vincent Starrett, Mexico City, Vera Cruz, Chicago Daily News, McNaught's Monthly, Xochimilco, Fred Boalt, Zapatistas, Robert Mangler, Caxtonian, Caxton Club, Caxton Society, C.V.E Starrett
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A lifetime with catalogues

September 21, 2019 by Ray Betzner

Those single-minded book collectors

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September 21, 2019 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Ben Abramson, Argus Books, Fashions in Fiction, The Observer, Oppenheim's, Gene Markey, Walt Whitman, Et Cetera, John Doctoroff, "Limited Editions", Covici Friede, Reedy's Mirror, Ebony Flame, Flame and Dust, An Essay on Limited Editions, Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, R. Gerald McMurtry, Books Alive, Chicago Sunday Tribune, Lincoln Herald
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Reuse, Recycle, Reprint

September 07, 2019 by Ray Betzner

A Three Goose Problem.

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Vincent Starrett, Bookman's Holiday, Random House, Paul Galdone, Vergoose, Walter Klinefelter
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One of 'My Disciples', Part Three

May 26, 2019 by Ray Betzner

A Honce/Starrett inspired walk among the shelves.

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May 26, 2019 /Ray Betzner
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One of "My Disciples," Part Two

May 25, 2019 by Ray Betzner

A library in one slim book.

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May 25, 2019 /Ray Betzner
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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

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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Pirates, desert islands and mermaids.

March 29, 2019 by Ray Betzner

Or “Pirrrrates, merrrrmaids and deserrrrt islands. Arrrrgh.”

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March 29, 2019 /Ray Betzner
In Praise of Stevenson: An Anthology, Treasure island, THe Bookfellows of Chicago, Long John Silver, Reedy's Mirror, Covici-McGee, Dead Man's Chest, The Colophon, The Dates in the Red-Headed League, Dorothy L. Sayers, A Speck on the Map, Robinson Crusoe, The Sign of the Four, Kdakk, Ballad of Brobdingnag, Gulliver, Jonathan Swift, Books Alive, Books and Bipeds, Lilliput, Blefuscu, Fridolf Johnson, mermaids, Guy and Constance Jones, Peabody's Mermaid
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