Like his late colleague, Mitropoulos, he reads mystery stories, in particular Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

A more obvious influence on the early Poirot stories is that of Arthur Conan Doyle.

For his part Conan Doyle acknowledged basing his detective stories on the model of Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin, and his anonymous narrator, and basing his character Sherlock Holmes on Joseph Bell, who in his use of " ratiocination " prefigured Poirot's reliance on his " little grey cells ".

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jeremy Bentham, Florence Nightingale and even Queen Victoria are reputed to have stayed there, although there is no real evidence for this.

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, as a spiritualist, was enthusiastic about the photographs, and interpreted them as clear and visible evidence of psychic phenomena.

Author and prominent Spiritualist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle learned of the photographs from the editor of the Spiritualists ' publication Light.

Arthur Wright was " obviously impressed " that Conan Doyle was involved, and gave his permission for publication, but he refused payment on the grounds that, if genuine, the images should not be " soiled " by money.

Gardner and Conan Doyle sought a second expert opinion from the photographic company Kodak.

Gardner and Conan Doyle, perhaps rather optimistically, interpreted the results of the three expert evaluations as two in favour of the photographs ' authenticity and one against.

Conan Doyle also showed the photographs to the physicist and pioneering psychical researcher Sir Oliver Lodge, who believed the photographs to be fake.

Conan Doyle was preoccupied with organising an imminent lecture tour of Australia, and in July 1920, sent Gardner to meet the Wright family.

The plates were packed in cotton wool and returned to Gardner in London, who sent an " ecstatic " telegram to Conan Doyle, by then in Melbourne.

Conan Doyle wrote back:

An enthusiastic and committed Spiritualist, Conan Doyle hoped that if the photographs convinced the public of the existence of fairies, then they might more readily accept other psychic phenomena.

The historical novelist and poet Maurice Hewlett published a series of articles in the literary journal John O ' London's Weekly, in which he concluded: " And knowing children, and knowing that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has legs, I decide that the Miss Carpenters have pulled one of them.

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.

But the cousins disagreed about the fifth and final photograph, which Conan Doyle in his The Coming of the Fairies described in this way:

In a 1985 interview on Yorkshire Television's Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers, Elsie said that she and Frances were too embarrassed to admit the truth after fooling Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes: " Two village kids and a brilliant man like Conan Doyle – well, we could only keep quiet.

Frances ' daughter, Christine Lynch, appeared in an episode of the television programme Antiques Roadshow in Belfast, broadcast on BBC One in January 2009, with the photographs and one of the cameras given to the girls by Conan Doyle.

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According to Arthur Conan Doyle, most British Spiritualists of the early 20th century were indifferent to the doctrine of reincarnation, few supported it, while a significant minority were opposed, since it had never been mentioned by spirits contacted in séances.

John Edmund Gardner ( 20 November 1926 – 3 August 2007 ) was an English spy and thriller novelist, best known for his James Bond continuation novels, but also for his series of Boysie Oakes books and three continuation novels containing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional villain, Professor Moriarty.

Gardner in turn replied quoting his own earlier description of Wilson: " The former boy wonder, tall and handsome in his turtleneck sweater, has now decayed into one of those amiable eccentrics for which the land of Conan Doyle is noted.

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

Remains of the fortress of Langeais, built by Fulk IIIHis son Fulk III Nerra ( 21 July 987 – 21 June 1040 ) found himself confronted on his accession with a coalition of Odo I, count of Blois, and Conan I of Rennes.

On June 1, 2009, Conan O ' Brien ( who had succeeded Letterman as host of Late Night in 1993 ) took over as host of The Tonight Show — an event Letterman referenced in his own show's Top Ten List on that night — and Letterman's " feud " with Leno temporarily ceased.

Burke appeared on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien on Friday, June 20, 2003.

In June 2010, Trey appeared as a surprise musical guest on Conan O ' Brien's " The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour " stop at the Tower Theater ( Upper Darby, Pennsylvania ).

Adrian Malcolm Conan Doyle ( 19 November 1910-3 June 1970 ) was the youngest son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his second wife Jean, Lady Conan Doyle.

* June 3 – Adrian Conan Doyle, son and literary executor of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

On June 1, 1998, CNBC Asia added CNBC Sports which it aired weekend afternoons and in October 1998, it also started airing selected episodes of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with Conan O ' Brien on weekend evenings as CNBC Asia was replaced by the National Geographic Channel.

CNBC Europe confirmed they would show The Tonight Show when Conan O ' Brien, took over from Jay Leno in June 2009.

Case performed " This Tornado Loves You " from the Middle Cyclone on The Tonight Show with Conan O ' Brien on June 11, 2009.

George Ernest Thompson Edalji ( March 1876 – 17 June 1953 ) was famously and wrongly convicted of one of the ' Great Wyrley Outrages ,' ( the village of Great Wyrley being some eight-and-a-half miles south of Rugeley, south of the Cannock Chase district and north of Walsall ) but cleared as the result of an investigation by Arthur Conan Doyle.

* During a Chicago visit of Conan in June 2012, a 17-foot tall bobblehead statue in Conan O ' Brien's likeness was unveiled to the audience and given / donated to the city for display.

* June 6-Laure Conan, novelist ( b. 1845 )

On June 19, 2009, Triumph made his first appearance on The Tonight Show with Conan O ' Brien, serving as correspondent for the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Tennessee.

In June 2012, Triumph returned to Conan during the show's final episode broadcast from the historic Chicago Theatre.

* Manning appeared on stage with Conan O ' Brien at Radio City Music Hall for the former Tonight Show host's Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour on June 2, 2010.

He played on the Late Show with David Letterman in June 2008, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in July 2008, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson in August 2008, and Late Night with Conan O ' Brien in September 2008, and taped performances for a number of folk radio programs that aired throughout the summer.

D ' Abo's film debut was in the supporting role of Princess Jehnna in Conan the Destroyer, released in June 1984.

Sammy James, Jr., guitarist and front man of the Mooney Suzuki, uses a natural finished one and appeared on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien with it on June 21, 2007.

He then appeared on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien on June 8, 2001, and played " Jet Airliner ".