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,
Jack Spratt (fictional detective) Inspector with the Reading, Berkshire "Nursery Crimes Division", with his assistant Sergeant Mary Mary (another nursery rhyme character). Spratt and Mary were originally introduced into the alternate Fforde universe in the Thursday Next novel "The Well of Lost Plots" (2003) before taking over their own "Nursery Crimes" series: Jack Spratt (fictional detective) Jack Spratt is the protagonist in a series of alternate history science fiction fantasy novels by Jasper Fforde. He was named after the character from the English nursery rhyme. As revealed in "The Big Over Easy", for example, he hates eating fat, and was once married to a