Possible Clues:

• Clothes blue? That's hardly novel
• O. Henry specialty
• It doesn't have what it takes to be novel enough perhaps with brief rumour
• What is written in the first half of November?
• Spirits prior to Conservative account limited by definition
• Work of fiction in which politician keeps trousers on
• Spirits depressing Conservative voter's tale
• Leggy type from island produced a little white lie perhaps
• Poe specialty
• Brief narrative