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Conan and Doyle
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.
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.
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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Conan and promptly
However, Conan promptly informed the duke that he would definitely take the opportunity to invade the latter's duchy.

Conan and Sign
The islands are prominently featured in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mystery, The Sign of the Four, as well as in M. M.
The Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle often visit riverside parts as in The Sign of Four.
* The events that Sherlock Holmes investigates in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ’ s " The Sign of Four " are set in motion by the background story of Jonathan Small, who had served time in the Andaman Islands penal colony.
* Arthur Conan Doyle-The Sign of Four
The Sign of the Four ( 1890 ), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
* The Agra Fort plays a key role in the Sherlock Holmes mystery The Sign of the Four, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
In 1890 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published The Sign of the Four.
Electric light was installed in the entrance and courtyard at the exceptionally early date of 1879, and Arthur Conan Doyle set Sherlock Holmes stories such as A Scandal in Bohemia and The Sign of Four partly at the Langham.
Arthur Conan Doyle wrote The Sign of Four which was published in the magazine in February 1890.
In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of the Four, Small wonders " how my folk would stare when they saw their ne ' er-do-well coming back with his pockets full of gold moidores " when justifying his decision to help end Achmet's life for the treasure he carried.
The title of the book is well known to many who have not read it: in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of the Four, Sherlock Holmes says to Dr. Watson: " Let me recommend this book, -- one of the most remarkable ever penned.
Reade is quoted in one of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes adventures, The Sign of the Four: (...) " Winwood Reade is good upon the subject ," said Holmes.

Conan and Four
Strange which carry on into Strange Tales # 15 ; Conan the Barbarian # 252 ( January 1992 ), # 258-260 ( July – September 1992 ): Shuma-Gorath is briefly resurrected in the Hyborian Age, although the character looks significantly different than normal ; Marvel Knights # 26-27 ( March – April 2006 ): defeats the Fantastic Four but is defeated by Dr.
* John Buscema ( Conan the Barbarian, Fantastic Four, Savage Sword of Conan, Thor )

Conan and Stoddart
On 30 August 1889, Stoddart dined with Wilde and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at the Langham Hotel, and commissioned short novels from both men.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle described how he was commissioned to write the story over a dinner with Joseph M. Stoddart, managing editor of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, at the Langham Hotel in London on 30 August 1889.
The plaque commemorated the meeting at the Langham in August 1889 between Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle and Joseph Marshall Stoddart.

Conan and Wilde
* The novel Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders by Gyles Brandreth suggests that Oscar Wilde's friendship with Arthur Conan Doyle led Doyle to create Mycroft as a caricature of Wilde: mentally brilliant, but indolent and lazy.
* Owen Dudley Edwards – historian and literary expert on Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle and P. G.
The book is rich in intertextual connections to Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Oscar Wilde, and Conan Doyle.

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