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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Filling those gaps on the shelves

September 25, 2024 by Ray Betzner

Here dwell still, 3 books of note

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September 25, 2024 /Ray Betzner
Arthur Machen: A Novelist of Ecstacy and Sin, Walter M. Hill, L.S. Mitchell, Lucy Sprague Mitchell, Charles E. Honce, Flame and Dust, Pascal Covici, The Saturday Review of Literature, William Rose Benét, Penny Wise and Book Foolish, Covici, Friede, Merton G.L. Bailey, Edward C. Caswell, Bowdoin College

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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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

'Poor Stuff, But Accurate'

February 28, 2024 by Ray Betzner

Chicago, Mexico and Richmond meet in The Reviewer

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February 28, 2024 /Ray Betzner
Richard Harding Davis, Jack London, Chicago Daily News, Vera Cruz, RHD in Mexico, The Reviewer, Hunter Stagg, Arthur Machen, James Branch Cabell, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, H.L. Mencken, "Camera", William Dudley Murgatroyd, "A Dream of Wings", "Butterflies of Uganda", Frank Vigor Morley, Peter Ruber
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'A most remarkable thing'

February 04, 2024 by Ray Betzner

Prof. Pence and Sherlock Holmes

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February 04, 2024 /Ray Betzner
Raymond Woodbury Pence, DePauw University, Margaret Mead, Robert Benchley, Van Wyck Brooks, Scott Monty, Essays of Today, J.B. Priestly, Edith Wharton, Stephen Leacock, G.K. Chesterton, Bernard De Voto, H. Mumford Jones, Ronald Knox, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The Golden Book, The Bookman, Henry C. Johnson
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'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

Alice—The Ageless Child

November 30, 2023 by Ray Betzner

A Christmas Fantasy

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November 30, 2023 /Ray Betzner
The Escape of Alice, A Christmas Fantasy, Lewis Caroll, Alice in Wonderland, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland., The Torch Press, Charles Dodgson, Luther Albertus Brewer, University of Iowa, A Little Book of Bookly Verse, The Bookfellows, Tenniel, Don Quixote, The Pickwick Papers, J.M Barrie, H.G. Wells, Amy Lowell, Cedar Rapids, Maxwelton Braes, Annie Laurie, Mr. Britling, The Young Visiters, Daisy Ashford, Alexander Woollcott, Mr. Britling Sees it Through, Edward Wagenknecht, A Fireside Book of Yuletide Tales, Dayna Lozinski, Dayna McCausland, The Mad Gardener's Song, Sylvie and Bruno, Peter Ruber, Brilling, Alice, Alice Where art thou?
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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

Sherlock Holmes, Solar Pons, & the Coronation of King Charles III

April 24, 2023 by Ray Betzner

Calling Sherlock Holmes: Britain Needs Help Unearthing the Scone Stone

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April 24, 2023 /Ray Betzner
Sherlock Holmes, Solar Pons, August Derleth, Stone of Scone, Stone of Destiny, King Charles III, Coronation Chair, Scotland Yard, Inspector Lestrade, Westminster Abbey, Cononation Chair, Scone Palace, Bancroft Pons, Dr. Parker, No. 7 Praed Street

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
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