Plot: Grappling with a newly-found sense of ethics and his troubled conscience, the defence attorney, Lawson Russell, gets disbarred after accusing his client of guilt. Disgraced, the ex-lawyer retreats to sunny Key West to write a book when unexpectedly, a mysterious elderly Englishman will ask his opinion on his unpublished novel. But after the old author's unforeseen death, Lawson will yield to the overbearing temptation of passing off the stranger's work as his own and will harvest the fruits of an overnight success; however, the repulsive but suspiciously accurate details of five actual unsolved killings will bring the seasoned detective, Clifford Dubose, on his doorstep. Still, if one is innocent, how does he prove it when all evidence is gone?
Alternative Plot: In the wake of a career-ending scandal, disgraced lawyer Lawson Russell (Cuba Gooding Jr.) moves to Key West, Fla., where he befriends aging novelist Christopher Marlowe (Mark Pellegrino). After letting Russell borrow his latest manuscript, "A Murder of Crows," Marlowe dies of a heart attack. When Russell publishes the dead man's manuscript under his own name, he makes the best-seller list -- and unwittingly becomes the prime suspect in the investigation of a grisly multiple homicide.
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