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Mild-mannered mystery writer D. H. Mercer has become so immersed in his material that his creation, hard-boiled private eye Biff Deegan, constantly appears to him as a hallucination. Intent on getting rid of Biff, and replacing him with a more civilized detective, Mercer soon finds himself in a genuine mystery involving art fraud, murder, and a beautiful lady in peril.

Expect a playful, campy collision between cozy mystery tropes and surreal hallucinations. A quiet novelist finds his sanity slipping as his hard-boiled fictional detective begins haunting his actual reality.