In Fiction
The Difference Engine, a steampunk novel by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson, presents Oliphant as an agent of British intelligence operating in London.
The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack, a steampunk novel by Mark Hodder, presents Oliphant as a mysterious meddler and agent inimical to the book's protagonist, Sir Richard Francis Burton.
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“The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)
“We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance. To write a true work of fiction even is only to take leisure and liberty to describe some things more exactly as they are.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)