Mike discovered the old writer residing in backward town producing made-up stories (10)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

Mike discovered the old writer residing in backward town producing made-up stories M (=Mike, in NATO alphabet) + {[<t> H <e> (“discovered” means external covers are stripped away) + O (=old, as in Old Testament) + POE (=writer, i.e. Edgar Allan Poe)] in YTIC (CITY=town; “backward indicates reversal)}