Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created a Lascar foil to Sherlock Holmes in "The Man with the Twisted Lip". Lascars aboard the ship "Patna" figure prominently in the early chapters of Joseph Conrad's novel "Lord Jim". Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel "A Little Princess" features a lascar named Ram Dass. Also, Caleb Carr portrays two lascars as bodyguards for a Spanish diplomat near the end of "The Angel of Darkness". In "Wuthering Heights", it is speculated that Heathcliff, the main character, may be of lascar origin. Amitav Ghosh's book "Sea of Poppies" portrays the British East India Company and their use of lascar crews. Shahida Rahman's "Lascar" (2012) is the story of an East Indian lascar's journey to Victorian England.