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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Christopher Morley enters the scene

January 03, 2021 by Ray Betzner

Finding Bliss in Ysleta, Part 3

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January 03, 2021 /Ray Betzner
Christopher Morley, Vincent Starrett, A Vincent Starrett Library, Charles E. Honce, Edwin B. Hill, Edwin Bliss Hill, Carolyn Wells, Michael Gross, Wisteria Lodge, Collier's Weekly, Frederic Dorr Steele, Stephen Vincent Benet, The Bookman, Arthur Bartlett Maurice, William Rose Benet, Dupin, Poe, Arthur Conan Douyle, John Valentine, Arthur Conan Doyle, Stephen Crane: A Bibliography, Stephen Crane, A message for Vincent Starrett, 221B, Anthony Boucher, Elmer Davis
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Sherlockiana: The little leaflets at the start of a movement

January 03, 2021 by Ray Betzner

Finding Bliss in Ysleta, Part 2

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January 03, 2021 /Ray Betzner
Sherlockiana, Edward B. Hill, Edwin B. Hill, Edwin Bliss Hill, Ysleta, Vincent Starrett, Sherlock Holmes, Cornelis Helling, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Christopher Morley, E.E. Kellett, Monody on the Death of Sherlock Holmes, Ronald Knox, Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes, The Final Problem, Cambridge University, The Case of the Missing Patriarchs, Logan Clendening, John Myers Myers, Charles E. Honce, A Vincent Starrett Library, "Scotland Yard", "To William Gillette: On his return to the stage in 'Sherlock Holmes' ", To a Very Literary Lady, To an Undiscerning Critic, Arthur Conan Doyle, Some Piquant People, Lincoln Springfield, Dr. Joseph Bell
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Edwin B. Hill, his little hand press and its big impact

January 02, 2021 by Ray Betzner

Finding Bliss in Ysleta, Part 1

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January 02, 2021 /Ray Betzner
Edwin B. Hill, Edwin Bliss Hill, Ysleta, American Book Collector, Gertrude Hill Muir, Adrian Goldstone, John Myers Myers, A Check-list of items published by the private press of Edwin B. Hill, Kenneth A. Goldblatt, A Vincent Starrett Library, Christopher Morley, Charles Lamb, Edgar Allan Poe, The Wave, The Double Dealer, Fifteen More Poems, Thomas Kennedy, Ellen Denby, Arizona State University, What's O'Clock?
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Penny Poems

December 03, 2020 by Ray Betzner

Kittens, puppies, elephants and rhymes for a penny

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December 03, 2020 /Ray Betzner
Jon Bracker, Jonathan Bracker, Christopher Morley, Vincent Starrett, Penny Poems, Steven Rothman, Vignette Domestique, Elephants in Aspic, Books Alive, Bright Cages
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Vincent Starrett's Poirot parody

November 05, 2020 by Ray Betzner

I am an inquisitive old man, n’est-ce pas?

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Vincent Starrett, "The Other Woman", Alexandre Dulau, Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie, Sally Cardiff, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, World's Best 100 Detective Stories, Funk & Wagnalls, The Eleventh Juror, Missing Men, Jimmie Lavender
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Off Topic: Susan Rice

October 08, 2020 by Ray Betzner

Memories of a Susan Rice fan

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October 08, 2020 /Ray Betzner
Susan Rice, Mickey Fromkin, Vincent Starrett, John Bennett Shaw, Compound of Excelsior, The Sage of Santa Fe, Vinny Brosnan, The Somnambulist and the Detective, Bob Thomalen, Springtime in Baker Street, I Heard of Sherlock Everywhere, Scott Monty, Burt Wolder, Evelyn Herzog, Janice Fischer, Steven Rothman
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The Great Hotel Murder, Redux

September 16, 2020 by Ray Betzner

Riley Blackwood’s debut novel gets a loving new edition.

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September 16, 2020 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Otto Penzler, Lyndsay Faye, The Great Hotel Murder, Redbook magazine, Riley Blackwood
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“Sally you’re simply great!”

September 05, 2020 by Ray Betzner

His gal Sally

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September 05, 2020 /Ray Betzner
The Bloody Crescendo, Murder at the opera, A Box at the Opera, Ellery Queen, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Vincent Starrett, Peter Ruber, Otto Penzler, The Mysterious Press, Sally Cardiff, Arnold Castle, The Robber Kitten

Walking with Old Glory

June 11, 2020 by Ray Betzner

Flags, wax and fleeting fame

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The Fortnightly Dispatch and Vincent Starrett

May 29, 2020 by Ray Betzner

Talking, a lot, about books

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May 29, 2020 /Ray Betzner
The Fortnightly Dispatch, Steven Doyle, Wessex Press, The Baker Street Irregulars, The Baker Street Journal, Vincent Starrett, Rachel Latimer, 221B, The Unique Hamlet, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Christopher Morley, Elmer Davis
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Dedications

May 22, 2020 by Ray Betzner

Monkey glands, McCarthyites and the W.G.A.

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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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Books of the Golden Age

May 07, 2020 by Ray Betzner

From no other diversion in life have I had such enduring pleasure as from collecting books.

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May 07, 2020 /Ray Betzner
Charles E. Honce, Books of the Golden Age, Vincent Starrett, Chicago Tribune, Associated Press, Caxton Club, Newberry Library, The Freeman, Born in a Bookshop, G.A. Henty, Conan Doyle
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The Poet's Corner

April 12, 2020 by Ray Betzner

A consideration of Starrett the poet via 9 books.

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April 12, 2020 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Flame and Dust, Ebony Flame, Brillig, Autolycus in Limbo, Rhymes for Collectors, Estrays, Fifteen More Poems, Banners in the Dawn, "Shop Windows in Winter", Thomas Kennedy, George Seymour, Basil Thompson, The Camelot Press, THe Bookfellows of Chicago, Walter M. Hill, An Iron Dog, Covici-McGee, Pascal Covici, November 24 1918, charles Hon, William Rose Benet, Epigram, Edwin B. Hill, Summer Shower, E.P. Dutton, To Wicky, To Wicky: My Wire, The Dierkes Press of Chicago., Alice, Alice Where art thou?
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An inscription that makes no sense

March 20, 2020 by Ray Betzner

A weird book with an even odder inscription

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March 20, 2020 /Ray Betzner
The Sorcercer's Apprentice, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Mahlon Blaine, Ray Latimer, Vincent Starrett, Richard Herczel, Order of the Garter, Edward III, Goethe, Hietzsche, Frank Braun, Joseph DUnninger
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Provenance

February 27, 2020 by Ray Betzner

Do we ever really ‘own’ a book?

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February 27, 2020 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Officium Baetae Marie Virginis., Frank Morris, Waldo Leon Rich, Nellie Brown, Saratoga Springs, Silver Blaze, The Valley of Fear, Reading, Freeman's Auctions, Fanny Butcher, Chicago Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Charles Honce
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'The Real Vincent Starrett'

February 06, 2020 by Ray Betzner

“What, then, of the real Starrett?”

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February 06, 2020 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, H.L. Mencken, The Step Ladder, Flora Warren Seymour, Estrays, George Seymour, Walter M. Hill
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'He has the collection mania in its most acute form.'

January 23, 2020 by Ray Betzner

The book haul from the Baker Street Irregulars weekend 2020

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January 23, 2020 /Ray Betzner
Baker Street Irregulars, Baker Street Irregulars Press, Gasogene Press, Wessex Press, Strand Bookstore, Otto Penzler, Mysterious Bookshop, The Third Cab, Speckled Band of Boston, James Keddie, Enola Stewart, Stevens Institute of Technology, Some Notes on a Meeting at Chisham, Robert John Bayer, Vincent Starrett, Magico Magazine, Ross Davies, The Baker Street Almanac, Sherlock Holmes in Inda, Jayantika Ganguly, Ray Reithmeier, Philip Bergem, The Norwegian Explorers, The Conan Doyle Review, Ashley Polasek, Marino Alvarez, Timothy Greer, Daniel Stashower, Constantine Rossakis, Robert Katz, The Milvertonians of Hampstead, Dancing to Death, The worst man in London, Nicholas Utechin, Mattias Bostom, Mark Alberstadt, Leah Guinn, Roy Pilot, Doug Elliott, Mark Gagen, Steven Doyle, The Sherlock Holmes Review, The Annotated Lost World, The Annotated White Company, N.C. Wyeth
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The Devon County Chronicle: Vincent Starrett Edition

January 09, 2020 by Ray Betzner

A fanzine’s affectionate festschrift

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January 09, 2020 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Robert Hahn, Robert Walter Hahn, Julie McKuras, The Devon County Chronicle, John Bennett Shaw, Ben Abramson, Argus Book Shop, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Baker Street Irregulars, Hounds of the Baskerville (sic), William S. Baring-Gould, James keddie Jr., Rex Stout, August Derleth, Julian Wolff, Charles Honce, Belden Wigglesworth, Hugo's Companions
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The Crane Competition

December 05, 2019 by Ray Betzner

Bibliographers can get combative

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December 05, 2019 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Stephen Crane: A Bibliography, Stephen Crane, O.L. Griffith, The Centaur Book Shop, The Red Badge of Courage, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Harold T. Mason, Modern Library, Men Women and Books
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'Sincerely yours, S.C. Roberts'

November 16, 2019 by Ray Betzner

Holmes & Watson & Starrett & Roberts & Smith & Wolff

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November 16, 2019 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, S.C. Roberts, Holmes & Watson, Baker Street Studies, A Note on the Watson Problem, "221B", he Private Life of Sherlock Holmes., Dear Starrett—/Dear Briggs—, Doctor Watson: Prolegomena to the study of biographical problem, University Press Cambridge, Rex Stout, "Watson was a Woman", Saturday Review of Literature, "Christmas Eve", “The Strange Case of the Megatherium Deaths.”
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