Editing Inspector Japp (section)

==Creation==
Inspector Japp was inspired by the fictional police detective [[Inspector Lestrade]] from the [[Sherlock Holmes]] stories by [[Arthur Conan Doyle]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Mitzi M. |last=Brunsdale |page=146 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p2zTtMxkExgC&pg=PA146 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |year=2010 |isbn=9780313345319 |title=Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection: From Sleuths to Superheroes [2 volumes]: From Sleuths to Superheroes}}</ref> Christie even modelled Japp after the "ferret-like" qualities of Lestrade.<ref name="Maida">{{cite book |title=Murder She Wrote: A Study of Agatha Christie's Detective Fiction |last1=Maida |first1=Patricia D. |last2=Spornick |first2= Nicholas B. |pages=167–168 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PoNmBplXH6sC&pg=PA167 |isbn=9780879722159 |publisher=Popular Press |year=1982}}</ref> In the first novel in which Japp appears, ''[[The Mysterious Affair at Styles]]'', he is described as a "ferret-faced man",<ref name="Styles">{{cite book |url=http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/863 |via=Project Gutenberg |title=The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |access-date=14 July 2020}}</ref> which is similar to the description of Lestrade as a "ferret-like man" in Doyle's 1891 short story "[[The Boscombe Valley Mystery]]".<ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1661 |title=The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |via=Project Gutenberg |access-date=16 July 2020}}</ref>