C. Auguste Dupin Vanished Treasure" (May 1965) and "The Fires in the Rue St. Honoré" (January 1967). This collection was subsequently published in England by Tom Stacey in 1972 as "Murder in the Rue Royale and Further Exploits of the Chevalier Dupin" and included a further five stories written since the original publication. Dupin had considerable impact on the Agatha Christie character Hercule Poirot, first introduced in "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" (1920). Later in the fictional detective's life, he writes a book on Edgar Allan Poe in the novel "Third Girl" (1966). "The Man Who Was Poe", a juvenile novel by Avi,
Jacques Dupin which represented Joan Miró, a close friend. The gallery also represented Marc Chagall, Alberto Giacometti, Francis Bacon and Wassily Kandinsky. Giacometti and Bacon both painted his portrait. Dupin wrote Miró's biography, numerous monographs on the artist's work, and was empowered by Miró's family to be the sole authenticating authority of the artist's work; a role that made him much sought after by collectors. In 1987, Dupin was the curator of a retrospective of Miró's work at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the first such retrospective in New York since 1959. Jacques Dupin Jacques Dupin (4 March 1927, Privas, Ardèche –