7/8/2023 0 Comments Rex stout plot it yourself![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Did the authors and publishers shelve and then steal this intellectual property, or are they the victims of a clever criminal enterprise? NAAD, and the accused individual members, insist the claims are fraudulent, but there is, or seems to be, considerable damning evidence against them, in the form of similar manuscripts that were written by the accusers and submitted to the publishers of the later, successful, works. Several of their more successful members have been hit with plagiarism allegations and are being sued for heavy damages by their accusers. In Plot It Yourself The National Association of Authors and Dramatists, or NAAD, is in a pickle, and has come to Nero Wolfe, Great Detective, to get them out of it. If there had been then in England a National Association of Authors and Dramatists, Barry Cornwall would have been a member." ![]() It is doubtless an exaggeration, but it is not a blah. He wrote Mirandola, a tragedy performed at Covent Garden with Macready and Kemble. It was said, or written, more than a century ago by Barry Cornwall, the English poet and dramatist. 'Most writers steal a good thing when they can' is doubtless an-" ".I can't dismiss the possibility that one or more of the supposed victims is a thief and a liar. Thomas Dexter, publishing executive, Plot It Yourself (1959) "There is something about the idea of a very successful author stealing his material from an unsuccessful author that seems to appeal to ordinary people, and juries are made up of ordinary people." ![]()
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