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    Men, Women, and Boats
    Men, Women, and Boats
    Men, Women, and Boats
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    Men, Women, and Boats

    By Vincent Starrett and Stephen Crane

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    Men, Women, and Boats
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    Vincent Starrett

    Vincent Starrett (1886–1974) was a Chicago journalist who become one of the world’s foremost experts on Sherlock Holmes. A books columnist for the Chicago Tribune, he also wrote biographies of authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson and Ambrose Bierce. A founding member of the Baker Street Irregulars, Starrett is best known for writing The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1933), an imaginative biography of the famous sleuth.

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