The Trichinopoly cigar was actually manufactured from tobacco grown near the town of Dindigul near the present-day Tiruchirappalli[1] and formed one of India's main items of export during the Victorian era.
[2][3] In “the Story of the House with the Green Blinds”, a sub-section of “The Rajah’s Diamond”, itself a sub-section of New Arabian Nights” by Robert Louis Stevenson, Mr. Vandeleur “was smoking a Trichinopoli cigar in the veranda.” [Pentlandite Edition, Cassell & Company 1906, p. 157] In Chapter 3 of A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes provides a description of a culprit: "He was more than six feet high, was in the prime of life, had small feet for his height, wore coarse, square-toed boots and smoked a Trichinopoly cigar."
In Chapter XIII of The Red Thumb Mark by the same author, the villain, knowing Dr Thorndyke's partiality for Trichinopoly cigars, tries to murder him by sending him a poisoned specimen.
In Chapter III of The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, by Dorothy L. Sayers, Lord Peter Wimsey has been drinking an expensive old port and comments disparagingly on "a fellow who polluted it with a Trichinopoly."
The carved teak furniture, the brass trays, the dusty tiger-skulls on the wall, the Trichinopoly cigars...They had a little dark house in one of those buried back-streets that exist in Ealing.