ABC's "Castle" poses a moral question: is a novelist (or filmmaker or website author) responsible for acts his art "inspires"?

Can a “thriller” novelist, with all his nefarious imagination, help a police department solve crimes with his people skills, especially when the crimes imitate those in some of his novels?
That’s a major premise of the ABC series “Castle”, with Nathan Fillion as the mystery novelist, and Stana Katic as NY detective Kate Beckett.
It has

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