Author Vincent Starrett, who penned The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, created a series of short stories featuring a gentlemanly, cultured detective named "Jimmie Lavender".
Ruber is the author of The Last Bookman: A Journey into the Life and Times of Vincent Starrett: Journalist, Bookman, Bibliophile (NY: Candlelight Press, 1968; reprint Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 1995) and editor of over 25 books.
Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett was born above his grandfather's bookshop in Toronto.
Vincent van Gogh | Vincent Price | St. Vincent | Frank Vincent | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Vincent D'Onofrio | Vincent d'Indy | Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul | Rhonda Vincent | Vincent Scully | Vincent Pastore | Vincent | St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney | St Vincent's Hospital | John Vincent Atanasoff | John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent | Jan-Michael Vincent | Fay Vincent | Vincent La Selva | Vincent Gallo | Vincent Ferrer | St. Vincent (musician) | St Vincent | Saint Vincent (island) | Charles Starrett | Cape St. Vincent | Vincent Spano | Vincent Smith | Vincent of Saragossa | Vincent of Beauvais |
He is editing for Battered Silicon Dispatch Box all of Vincent Starrett's works, with 22 of a projected 25 volumes already in print.