With the advent of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, the development of the modern private detective begins.

The islands are prominently featured in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mystery, The Sign of the Four, as well as in M. M.

Prints of their photographs of the fairies, along with a few other items including a first edition of Conan Doyle's book The Coming of the Fairies, were sold at auction in London for £ 21, 620 in 1998.

* The Coming of the Fairies – scans of the original version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's book ( 1922 )

" References to the Britannica can be found throughout English literature, most notably in one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's favourite Sherlock Holmes stories, " The Red-Headed League ".

; Forgotten Futures III: George E. Challenger's Mysterious World: Adventures with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's scientific hero, including the full text of The Lost World, " The Poison Belt ", " When The World Screamed ", The Land Of Mist, " The Horror of the Heights ", and " The Disintegration Machine ", a worldbook, four adventures, and a wargames scenario.

Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories helped found the tradition of detective fiction.

* In Bram Stoker's Dracula, several characters make phrenological observations in describing other characters, as does Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.

Tor Royal Lane is a dead end road which leads down from the town to the site of the disused Whiteworks tin mine, about 3 km or 2 miles to the south-east, which overlooks Fox Tor Mires, the presumed site of the Grimpen Mire to be found in Arthur Conan Doyle's tale The Hound of the Baskervilles.

They were frequent allies, and sometimes antagonists, of Sherlock Holmes in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous stories ( for instance, Inspector Lestrade ).

Explicit details about Sherlock Holmes's life outside of the adventures recorded by Dr. Watson are few and far between in Conan Doyle's original stories ; nevertheless, incidental details about his early life and extended families portray a loose biographical picture of the detective.

Conan Doyle promptly submitted The Sign of the Four to Stoddart, but Wilde was more dilatory ; Conan Doyle's novel was published in the February 1890 edition of Lippincott's, but Stoddart did not receive Wilde's typescript for The Picture of Dorian Gray until 7 April 1890.

In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels, " Gladstone " is the name of Dr. John Watson's English bulldog.

** Arthur Conan Doyle's detective character Sherlock Holmes makes his first appearance, in the novel A Study in Scarlet published in Beeton's Christmas Annual.

* June 25 – Arthur Conan Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes appears in The Strand Magazine for the first time.

* May 4 – Professor James Moriarty, fictional criminal mastermind of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes short story The Final Problem ( b. unknown )

* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Brigadier Gerard serves as a French soldier during the Napoleonic Wars

* Edward makes appearances in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's historical novels The White Company and Sir Nigel

In Arthur Conan Doyle's story, The Hound of the Baskervilles, the villain is a naturalist who collects butterflies, making him an " evil " entomologist.

One traditional approach in this form of fiction is for the main detective's principal assistant, the " Watson ", to be the narrator: this derives from the character of Dr Watson in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories.

* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, a television series

In the process, King Solomon's Mines created a new genre, known as the " Lost World ", which would inspire Edgar Rice Burroughs ' The Land That Time Forgot, Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King and HP Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness.

During the 1940s, Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, famous for playing Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in films, repeated their characterizations on radio on The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which featured both original stories and episodes directly adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle's stories.

The pictures came to the attention of writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who used them to illustrate an article on fairies he had been commissioned to write for the Christmas 1920 edition of The Strand Magazine.

Conan Doyle contacted Gardner in June 1920 to determine the background to the photographs, and wrote to Elsie and her father to request permission from the latter to use the prints in his article.

Conan Doyle used the later photographs in 1921 to illustrate a second article in The Strand, in which he described other accounts of fairy sightings.

Adrian threatened criminal proceedings against Pearson's " fakeography ", and wrote an article in protest, and later a book The True Conan Doyle ( John Murray, 1945 ).

On the next day, the New York Times ran a front page article about it, saying "( Conan Doyle ’ s ) monsters of the ancient world, or of the new world which he has discovered in the ether, were extraordinarily lifelike.

Their last television appearance was on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien on December 2, 2004.

His Last Bow is a collection of seven Sherlock Holmes stories ( eight in some editions ) by Arthur Conan Doyle, first in The Strand Magazine September 1908 to December 1913, plus the one-off title story ( September 1917 ), also called A Reminiscence of Mr. Sherlock Holmes under Reminiscences of Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

Howard characters: Kull in " Exile of Atlantis " ( Savage Sword of Conan # 3, December 1974 ), and Bran Mak Morn in " Worms of the Earth " ( Savage Sword of Conan # 16, November 1975 ).

Conan II of Rennes ( c. 1033 – 11 December 1066 ) was Duke of Brittany, from 1040 to his death.

Baritsu is the name given to a form of martial art described by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the Sherlock Holmes story " The Adventure of the Empty House ", the first of The Return of Sherlock Holmes, to explain how Holmes had managed to avoid falling into the Reichenbach Falls with Professor Moriarty as described in the story " The Final Problem ", first published in Strand Magazine in December 1893.

Nikolai performed with dream-pop duo Beach House during their appearance on Conan on December 20, 2010.

In December 1909, Conan Doyle had leased the Adelphi Theatre in the Strand for a production of his elaborate drama The House of Temperley.

During the week of December 13 – 17, 2010, Conan has fallen behind in the weekly overnight Nielsen Ratings, averaging only 1. 3 million viewers, compared to NBC's The Tonight Show ( 4. 2 million ), CBS's Late Show ( 3. 6 million ), ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Air Commandant Dame Lena Annette Jean Conan Doyle, Lady Bromet DBE, AE, WRAF, ADC ( 21 December 1912 – 18 November 1997 ) was best known as Jean Conan Doyle.

Vaughan performed on the episode of the TBS cable television show Conan that aired December 22, 2010.

* The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian ( Ballantine Books, December 2003 )

The band performed on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien on December 23, 1994.

A two-part and thirty-seven page comic strip adaptation in black and white, adapted by Roy Thomas and penciled by Tim Conrad and Barry Windsor-Smith, was published by Curtis Magazines in December 1976 and February 1977, in issues # 16 and # 17 of The Savage Sword of Conan.

This iteration of Set, the malevolent primeval seven-headed serpent god of chaos, has its origins in Robert E. Howard's first Conan short story The Phoenix on the Sword, ( first published in Weird Tales, December 1932 ); this story introduces Thoth-Amon, a follower of " the serpent god Set ".

On February 5, 2007, the Slip made their national television debut on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien, playing " Children of December ".