Tripping the Night Fantastic

The problem with the main character of any book realising that he may be just that; a fiction, is that it becomes rather hard to have him do as you wish, especially when he is also a writer and knows all your tricks.

And that he's suspected of murder, incredibly drunk, hallucinating, and trying to solve his own case... really, I would just put the book down and read something else.

The metaphysical novel is best left to the fictional.