From AP News in The Derrick , Oil City, PA, today —
"Banks lived part of the year in Florida, and for a time
had a home in Jamaica, but he was essentially a man
of the North, with an old Puritan’s sense of consequences.
Snow fell often in his fiction . . . ." — Hillel Italie
Update of 3:33 PM ET —
From a link target in this journal on April 4, 2004 —
"Puzzle begun I write in the day's space . . . ."