Blaine Snouffer was a farmhand in the Linworth area. On the night of April 10th, 1917, the 26-year-old went to the Worthington home of Mrs. Minnie Snyder whose stepdaughter was Mary Augusta Sickels. Sickels, 15, described by multiple newspaper articles from the time as Snouffer's "sweetheart" had spoken with him on the telephone earlier in the evening, telling him that she couldn't date him because she was going to date someone else. At Snyder's house, Snouffer broke down two doors before finding and killing Sickels. He was arrested shortly thereafter, pled guilty to the crime, and was executed in December of that year. Both Snouffer and Sickels were buried in Dublin Cemetery.
Lawrence Block's crime/PI novels featuring former NYPD detective Matt Scudder were originally envisioned as a series of paperback crime novels featuring a largely static protagonist much as many other "run-of-the-mill" crime series of the 1970s were. But Scudder was not willing to go quietly, even after Block repeatedly thought he might be done writing about him. The character has aged in roughly real-time since the 1970s and has dealt with his own demons, evil in the world about him, and the march of time throughout the series. Block is my favorite author and the Scudder novels are among the most acclaimed and (in my opinion) best of his works. If you like darkly-flavored crime novels, they are well worth checking out. The title for "Time to Murder and Create" was taken from the T. S. Eliot poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." It is the second novel in the series based on the order Block wrote them, but was published third.
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