Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction.

Allusions

• In Drama Episode 9: Shinichi's made-up name for himself is "Toiru" according to his explanation of how to write the kanji for it, but when spoken, it sounds like "Doyle".*
• In Chinatown Deja Vu in the Rain the name of the Chinese restaurant which Conan, Ran and Kogoro visits literally translates as "Conan Doyle Tower".
• In The Evidence That Didn't Disappear each of the 3 dogs, though two dogs now because one dog is deceased, owned by the Kanou family are named after Arthur Conan Doyle; Arthur who is a Shiba Inu dog owned by Teruya, Doyle who is a Papillon dog and Conan who was Mr Kanou dog and a Shepard dog but Conan died of a illnesses two years before the episode.
• Shinichi Kudo used the name Conan from Arthur Conan Doyle as his aliases first name for his shrunken form as Conan Edogawa.
  • In Movie 23 Conan used the aliases Arthur Hirai while in Singapore which the forename is derived from Arthur Conan Doyle just like how Shinichi came up with the name Conan Edogawa.

See also

• Detective Picture Book
• Sherlock Holmes