Vincent Starrett
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Starrett was a cub reporter with the Chicago Inter-Ocean in 1905. 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. During the 1920’s and 1930’s, Starrett wrote mystery and supernatural fiction for the pulp magazines. In 1920, he wrote a Sherlock Holmes pastiche entitled The Adventure of the Unique Hamlet. Starrett’s most famous work, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, was published in 1933. Starrett retired from the Chicago Tribune afer writing a book column for 20 years. Starrett was one of the founders of the Chicago chapter of the Baker Street Irregulars.
221 B : | ARTHUR MACHEN : | Ambrose Bierce. | Bookman’s holiday : | Four literary classics : | Midnight and Percy Jones ; Murder in Peking | Private Life of Sherlock Holmes | Sherlock : | The private life of Sherlock Holmes /