NMLP P-018906 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Time to Murder and Create

Lawrence Block · Dell · 1977

The US Dell paperback original is the true first. By reading/series order it is the second Matthew Scudder novel, but by date of publication it appeared third, after The Sins of the Fathers (1976) and In the Midst of Death (1976) — Block wrote it before In the Midst of Death, so the writing and publication order are reversed.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-018906 for "Time to Murder and Create" by Lawrence Block (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-018906, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).