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490 Writing Hit Songs, Rewriting Charles Dickens, and Murdering Your Employer (with Rupert Holmes)

The History of Literature

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How Much Did You Invent Them?

There were a number of concerns what i had too many characters the book was by the way dickensian as you know that's where the word comes from. So i had to combine some characters and in some cases i had to ramp up some of the motives so that each of nine people could be a logical suspect. The villain seems pretty obvious the murder seems pretty much who you would think it to be my guess is that he was writing dr jekyll and mr hide ten years ahead of robert v steves. There was no such term as skits of frennier we didn't know about people having dual personalities in dickens time or if we did we knew about it

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