Occult detective fiction Occult detective fiction Occult detective fiction combines the tropes of detective fiction with those of supernatural horror fiction. Unlike the traditional detective, the occult detective is employed in cases involving ghosts, curses, and other supernatural elements. Some occult detectives are portrayed as being themselves psychic or in possession of other paranormal powers. Edgar Allan Poe wrote three stories featuring a detective involved with the occult named C. Auguste Dupin, starting with "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" which was first published in 1841. Fitz James O’Brien’s character Harry Escott is another contender for first occult detective in fiction. A specialist
André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin "Principia Juris Civilis", 5 vols. (1806); "Mémoires et plaidoyers de 1800 au 1ier janvier 1830", in 20 vols.; and "Mémoires ou souvenirs du barreau", in 4 vols. (1855–1857). His brother, Pierre Charles François Dupin, was a mathematician. André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin (1 February 17838 November 1865), commonly called Dupin the Elder, was a French advocate, president of the chamber of deputies and of the Legislative Assembly. Dupin was born at Varzy, in the Nièvre "département", in France. He was educated by his father, who was a lawyer of eminence, and at an early age