A Series of Unfortunate Events the plot of "The Grim Grotto", the eleventh book. The Baudelaire orphans are named after Charles Baudelaire; Violet's name also comes from the T.S. Eliot's poem "The Waste Land", specifically its verses concerning the "violet hour," and Sunny and Klaus take their first names from Claus and Sunny von Bülow, while Mr. Poe is a reference to Edgar Allan Poe (his sons are named Edgar and Albert). In the seventh installment, "The Vile Village," Count Olaf's disguise, Detective Dupin, is an allusion to C. Auguste Dupin, a fictional detective created by Edgar Allan Poe. Isadora and Duncan Quagmire are named
C. Auguste Dupin several people confuse the two on first sight. Dupin makes a guest appearance in the first two issues of Alan Moore's "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume I" (1999) comic book, helping to track down and subdue the monstrous Mr Hyde (who is living secretly in Paris after faking the death described in "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"). Dupin teams up with the Count of Monte-Cristo to fight "Les Habits Noirs" in the story "The Kind-Hearted Torturer" by John Peel published in the anthology Tales of the Shadowmen, Volume 1 (2005) The search for the "real