Maggie Kelly is an author of historical detective stories. She is smart, generous, talented, very complex and absent-minded. He is afraid of people and gets lost in the face of their pressure. He is afraid of his oppressive mother and constantly tries to quit smoking. She is one of those who wakes up at two in the morning and says to herself: “So that’s what I should have said when she joked about my thighs!” She made the hero of her detective stories ideal. The hero is self-confident, insightful, gallant, witty, noble and desperately brave. All this was wonderful while he lived on the pages of her books, unraveling crimes and seducing beautiful ladies. But living with the perfect 19th century hero in the same apartment in Manhattan in 2004? Look for criminals with him? Falling in love with your own literary character? Of course, in such conditions life cannot be boring.