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.

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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Additionally, many of the Conan stories by Howard, de Camp and Carter used geographical place names from Clark Ashton Smith's Hyperborean Cycle.

In 1997, archive footage of Burton was used in the first episode of the television series Conan.

Although Moriarty appeared in only two of the 60 Sherlock Holmes tales by Conan Doyle, Holmes ' attitude to him has gained him the popular impression of being Holmes ' arch-nemesis – as " The Final Problem " clearly states: " Holmes spent months in a private war against Moriarty's criminal operations " – and he has been frequently used in later stories by other authors, parodies, and in other media.

Finally, Conan Doyle is known to have used his former school, Stonyhurst College, as inspiration for details of the Holmes series ; among his contemporaries at the school were two boys named Moriarty.

Biographer Andrew Lycett calls him a " spendthrift playboy " who ( with his brother Denis ) " used the Conan Doyle estate as a milch-cow ".

Howard also used the name of ' Nabonidus ' ( father of Belshazzar ) in the Conan tale " Rogues in the House " which appeared in Marvel's Conan the Barbarian # 11.

* Several B ' z songs were used in the Detective Conan anime series.

Sic Radical used to broadcast The Tonight Show with Conan O ' Brien following the demand from their target audience to Conan's humor, after Jimmy Fallon took over Late Night.

In 1993 Lurie, with Howard Shore, composed the theme to Late Night with Conan O ' Brien which was also used as the theme to The Tonight Show when O ' Brien hosted.

Sarah Silverman appeared on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien in 2001, stirring up controversy when the word chink was used without the usual bleep appearing over ethnic slurs on network television.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle used the term carte blanche in several of his Sherlock Holmes stories.

Most recently, Friesians were seen in the 2010 remake of Clash of the Titans, where two horses named " Boech " and " Gallo " each took turns playing the winged horse, Pegasus, and they were also used in the 2011 remake of Conan the Barbarian.

George Takei has noted on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien that the phrase was used to synchronize with the mouth movement of the original Japanese word, " bakayarou ", loosely meaning " idiot " or " bonehead ".

The official English title used by Nippon Animation is Conan, The Boy in Future.

This idea was largely popularised by The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes ( 1970 ), a 1970s motion picture directed by Billy Wilder, and has been frequently used in pastiches of Conan Doyle's original stories.

* The song was frequently used by comedian Conan O ' Brien to warm up his audience prior to taping his talk show Late Night with Conan O ' Brien, with the host singing the lyrics with musical accompaniment by the house band.

The term was first used in the context of fiction to refer to the Sherlock Holmes stories and novels, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, to distinguish those works from subsequent pastiches by other authors.

She released three more singles that year, and her title "" was used as an opening theme for the anime series Detective Conan, and made a great hit for the first time in her career.

He became friends with authors H. Rider Haggard and Arthur Conan Doyle ; the latter used Fawcett's Amazonian field reports as an inspiration for his novel, The Lost World ( see ' External links ' below ).

In 2006, the Japanese government used Conan in campaigns to help promote crime awareness among children.

Targeting the same audience, Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs used Conan and his friends in two pamphlets: one to promote the ministry's mission, the other to introduce the 34th G8 summit held in the country in 2010 .< ref >< p >< p > Conan and his friends were also featured in the sixth installment of the Anime, Heroes and Heroines commemorative stamp series issued by Japan Post in 2006.