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** But note that Dr. Watson himself claims this to be the case—and who are you going to believe: a real-life doctor and veteran of The War in Afghanistan (three thousand years and counting!), or some obscure literary agent?
* Likewise it's been suggested several times that [[Nero Wolfe]] was a real person and Archie Goodwin was making cash on the side by selling their case records to Rex Stout (and the reason why [[Always Murder|Wolfe only seems to solve murders]] is because they sell better than plain old theft or corruption). This is especially appropriate since Wolfe was allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes and has been accused of being related to him in some way (either his actual son by Irene Adler or as his nephew by his brother Mycroft, who Wolfe greatly resembles).
* George MacDonald Fraser's ''[[Flashman]]'' series blurs a number of lines. The title character is lifted from a Victorian novel (along with at least two supporting characters), and occasional supporting characters are lifted from other works of fiction (notably Colonel Sebastian Jack Moran and [[Sherlock Holmes]] himself), but most characters are from actual recorded history (minor characters are often invented by Fraser). Despite Flashman's life story being preposterous, the conceit worked well enough that (according to a 1969 article in [[Time (magazine)
* While the books themselves do not invoke [[Direct Line to the Author]], Garth Nix [http://www.scholastic.com/titles/seventhtower/qa.htm has said] regarding ''[[The Seventh Tower]]'', "Often, I get the feeling that the story is really happening somewhere and all I'm doing is trying to work out the best way to tell it."
* ''[[The Great Gatsby]]'' features what would seem to be a mistake when the narrator talks about "the events of two years ago" when he's meant to be relating the story of only one year ago. However, some hypothesize that the extra year was deliberately written in to give the impression that the character spent that time writing and publishing the book.
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