Vincent Starrett

Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett (October 26, 1886 – January 5, 1974), known as Vincent Starrett, was an American writer and newspaperman. Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett was born 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 late... more

Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett (October 26, 1886 – January 5, 1974), known as Vincent Starrett, was an American writer and newspaperman. Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett was born 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 , limited to 200 copies (the plan was to have 100 copies with the imprint of bookseller Walter M. Hill, and 100 with Starrett's imprint; the printer misunderstood the instructions and 190 have Hill on as... less