A Murder of Crows plot
"A work of deadly fiction."
After Lawson Russell is banned from being a lawyer, he goes somewhere to write a book, but it's not as easy as he thought. Then he meets an old man who does have a manuscript and he is allowed to read it. To his surprise it is very good, he also wants to write something like that. The old man dies and he pretends it's his manuscript. It becomes a best seller. Then it turns out that the murders described in the book actually happened and he is arrested. He will now have to prove himself innocent by finding the real killer.