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== [[Literature]] ==
* In P.D. James's ''Original Sin'', the villain finds out on whom he needs to take revenge for things that happened decades ago, by pretending he's doing research for a novel called ''Original Sin''.
* In the [[Stephen King]] short story "Dolan's Cadillac", Robinson claims that he's writing a [[Sci Fi]] story and asks someone how much dirt the characters would have to excavate in order to trap the alien's vehicle. The person who gives Robinson this information comments something to the effect of "It's funny, the dimensions of that vehicle are almost exactly the same as a Cadillac."
** King himself had to ask his brother how he'd go about burying a Cadillac, and got extensive details (even down to how to hotwire a digger). Of course, King had spent years preparing the alibi of being a best-selling writer by this point. He also claimed (in the author's notes of ''Nightmares & Dreamscapes'', in which this story appears) that details of the crime were changed in the story so that it wouldn't actually work, just in case anyone reading it got ideas.
* The [[Lord Peter Wimsey]] novel ''Strong Poison'' uses the inverted version: Harriet really is writing a murder mystery, and purchases arsenic to see how hard she should make it for her poisoner to get some. Then her ex-lover turns up dead of arsenic poisoning, for completely unrelated reasons, so naturally she's [[Wrongly Accused]] of killing him.
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* This is toyed with in the [[Extruded Book Product|Gold Eagle]] series Track. The main character, Dan Track, is a consultant to action writers on getting guns right and writing convincing combat. He is good at this because he owns a lot of guns and slaughters about a hundred guys per book (in justified shootouts, naturally).
* There's a ''[[Nancy Drew]]'' book where a crook is using this as cover for casing peoples' houses.
* Elizabeth's weekend meetings with Jennifer for witchcraft training in ''[[Jennifer Hecate Macbeth William Mc Kinley And Me Elizabeth]]'' is passed off to her family as a semester-long school project.
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* On the commentary track for ''[[Saw]]'', Leigh Whannell mentions how, early in the scriptwriting, he asked a doctor which drug was best to use if you wanted a person to be unable to move, but still be conscious and able to feel pain. --> "He was suspicious".
* The customer in [http://notalwaysright.com/murder-she-wrote/6829 this] [[(The Customer is) Not Always Right]] entry is probably on the level. It would be far weirder if she wasn't.
* John Rogers, showrunner and co-creator of ''[[Leverage]]'', recently wrote in a [http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2010/11/leverage-309-three-card-monte-job-post.html post-game of an episode]:
{{quote|For all you Spec-Monkeys out there: ''never be afraid to call someone''. A very nice lady from the Boston PD Public Relations Department spent a good hour with us on the phone explaining how evidence is stored and transferred in the Boston PD system...Then, we got some vague answers from bank-alarm companies about the protocols for bank alarms and how police deal with them...by cross-referencing the answers we got from the companies to fill in the blanks, we got a very good sense of how these things go down. At which point Boylan and I, who were the ones working on the script (the rest of the room had moved on to #310), realized ''we should totally go rob a bank''.}}
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