Do you think a story about Jacob Marley would be interesting?

Last night I was thinking about everyone’s response to the Q I asked about Ebenezer Scrooge and then I got to thinking about the life of Jacob Marley. I wonder if he ended up as awful as Scrooge for the same reasons, or for some different reasons.

Obviously, both characters are fictional, and Charles Dickens is no longer with us, but I was wondering if any of you would enjoy the idea of a modern author, writing in the style of Dickens, writing a good story about the life and times of Jacob Marley. I would hope that Marley came to his greedy awful personality in a completely different way than Scrooge did, otherwise it would pretty much be the same exact story.

I’ve read a couple of books about Sherlock Holmes that were written by modern authors in the style of Arthur Conan Doyle that were very good.

So two questions:

Would you be interested in reading a story about the life of Jacob Marley?

What scenarios and story lines do you think would be good for such a book? How do you think Marley, as opposed to Scrooge, came to be the way that he was?

I’m not a novel writer, so I don’t think I could even begin to attempt a story like this, although I do have a few ideas that I could throw into the pot, but I would totally read a book like this.