Possible Clues:

• Fingerprint in true crime finally can be studied
• Fairly gripping a beer, lad gets drunk
• Like a good book about beer expert's dipped into
• Novelist pens a book, large and what it should be
• Hard to put down, perhaps
• Written so as to be understood
• A book left, penned by novelist, is okay as literature
• Expert in proper English appealing to book-lovers?
• Like good book about beer expert penned
• Study can make something legible