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Marion Moore Hill didn't realize her book about Benjamin Franklin's will was coming out the same year as his tercentenary until the book was almost complete. Talk about good PR.

The novel, Deadly Will, details a fictitious alteration to Franklin's will by his neighbor, Nathan Henry, to allow his descendants to usurp the founding father's inheritance. Franklin's actual will invested his fortune for 200 years, then gave it all to the cities of Philadelphia and Boston.

Hill is a native Oklahoman but that didn't stop her from writing a book set in Philly. Here's Philadelphia as she sees it.

"I really liked Old Original Bookbinder's. Being from a landlocked place like Oklahoma, we don't get much fresh seafood, other than Red Lobster."

"We were eating at this Mexican restaurant by Valley Forge, talking about interesting places to kill someone. We started getting weird looks from people at another table, so I explained my book to them. Then they started suggesting all these really creepy Philadelphia places where you can kill someone."

"When I visited Valley Forge national park, I found this wooded area. I ended up having a character killed there."

"At Fort Mifflin, where it looks out over the Delaware River. It's a historical river with this old fort looking over it from a high place. Oklahoma has some rolling hills, but it's mostly flat."