Armchair detective an arm-chair, my brother would be the greatest criminal agent that ever lived." "The first example of armchair detecting can be found in the work of Edgar Allan Poe. In "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" (1842), C. Auguste Dupin, working wholly from newspaper accounts, arrives at the correct explanation for a young woman's mysterious disappearance." Baroness Orczy's Old Man in the Corner sits in a restaurant and talks to an acquaintance about cases, almost always finishing by revealing that he has solved the crime. A more literal use of this term can be found in Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe novels
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