C. Auguste Dupin Dostoevsky called Poe "an enormously talented writer" and favorably reviewed Poe's detective stories. The character Porfiry Petrovich in Dostoevsky's novel "Crime and Punishment" was influenced by Dupin. In the first Sherlock Holmes story, "A Study in Scarlet" (1887), Doctor Watson compares Holmes to Dupin, to which Holmes replies: "No doubt you think you are complimenting me ... In my opinion, Dupin was a very inferior fellow... He had some analytical genius, no doubt; but he was by no means such a phenomenon as Poe appears to imagine". Alluding to an episode in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", where Dupin
C. Auguste Dupin Dupin was highlighted in volume 10 of the "Detective Conan" manga's edition of "Gosho Aoyama's Mystery Library", a section of the graphic novels where the author introduces a different detective (or occasionally, a villain) from mystery literature, television, or other media. C. Auguste Dupin is the protagonist of the "Dark Tales" Hidden Objects series, developed by ERS Game Studios, published by Bigfish Games. In "The Vile Village", Count Olaf disguises himself as "Detective Dupin" in order to falsely accuse the protagonists of murder. In the comic series "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" Dupin appeared as a minor character where we