Vincent Starrett

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Vincent Starrett
Born October 26, 1886(1886-10-26)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Died January 5, 1974 (aged 87)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Occupation newspaperman, writer
Nationality United States
Genres Detective fiction, fantasy, horror

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

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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.[1] 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 wrote a book column for 20 years. Starett was one of the founders of the Chicago chapter of the Baker Street Irregulars.

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  • Clute, John; John Grant (1997). The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. New York: St. Martin's Press, 893. ISBN 0-312-15897-1. 
  • Ruber, Peter (2000). Arkham's Masters of Horror. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 403-410. ISBN 0-87054-177-3. 
  • "Vincent Starrett, Writer, Sherlock Holmes Expert", The Washington Post, 1974-01-13. (English) 

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  1. ^ Included in the The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes collection.

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