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,
C. Auguste Dupin The two met by accident while both were searching for "the same rare and very remarkable volume" in an obscure library. This scene, the two characters searching for a hidden text, serves as a metaphor for detection. They promptly move to an old manor located in "Faubourg Saint-Germain". For hobbies, Dupin is "fond" of enigmas, conundrums, and hieroglyphics. He bears the title "Chevalier", meaning that he is a knight in the Légion d'honneur. Dupin shares some features with the later gentleman detective, a character type that became common in the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. He is acquainted with police