Vincent Starrett

Infobox Writer
name = Vincent Starrett


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birthdate = birth date|1886|10|26|mf=y
birthplace = Toronto, Ontario, Canada
deathdate = death date and age|1974|1|5|1886|10|26|mf=y
deathplace = Chicago, Illinois, United States
occupation = newspaperman, writer
nationality = United States
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genre = Detective fiction, fantasy, horror

Vincent Starrett (October 26, 1886 – January 5, 1974) was an American writer and newspaperman.

Biography

Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett was born on October 26, 1886 above his grandfather's bookshop in Toronto. His father moved the family to Chicago in the late 1890s where Starrett attended John Marshall High School. Starrett landed a job as a cub reporter with the Chicago "Inter-Ocean" in 1905. When that paper folded, two years later, he began working for the "Chicago Daily News" as a crime reporter, a feature writer and finally a war correspondent in Mexico from 1914 to 1915. Starrett turned to writing mystery and supernatural fiction for the pulp magazines during the 1920s and 1930s. In 1920, he wrote a Sherlock Holmes pastiche entitled "The Adventure of the Unique Hamlet ". This story involved the detective with a missing 1604 edition of Shakespeare's play, which included an inscription by the playwright. [ Included in the "The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" collection.] Starrett's most famous work, "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes", was published in 1933. He retired from "The Chicago Tribune" in 1965 where he had written a book column for 20 years. Starett was one of the founders of the Chicago chapter of the Baker Street Irregulars.

References

*cite book | last=Clute| first=John| authorlink=John Clute | coauthors=John Grant | title=The Encyclopedia of Fantasy | location=New York | publisher=St. Martin's Press| pages=893 | date=1997 | id=ISBN 0-312-15897-1
*cite book | last=Ruber| first=Peter | title=Arkham's Masters of Horror | location=Sauk City, WI | publisher=Arkham House| pages=403-410 | date=2000 | id=ISBN 0-87054-177-3
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Bibliography

*"The Quick and the Dead", Arkham House, 1965, OCLC|1855899
*"The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", Penguin Books, 1985, ISBN 0-14-007907-6
*"The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes", Otto Penzler Books, 1993, ISBN 1-883402-05-0

ee also

*Adrian Conan Doyle
Battered Silicon Dispatch Box has published and has in print seven of Vincent Starrett's titles.

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