C. Auguste Dupin of life into it?" Many tropes that would later become commonplace in detective fiction first appeared in Poe's stories: the eccentric but brilliant detective, the bumbling constabulary, the first-person narration by a close personal friend. Dupin also initiates the storytelling device where the detective announces his solution and then explains the reasoning leading up to it. Like Sherlock Holmes, Dupin uses his considerable deductive prowess and observation to solve crimes. Poe also portrays the police in an unsympathetic manner as a sort of foil to the detective. The character helped established the genre of detective fiction, distinct from mystery fiction,
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