C. Auguste Dupin Dostoevsky called Poe "an enormously talented writer" and favorably reviewed Poe's detective stories. The character Porfiry Petrovich in Dostoevsky's novel "Crime and Punishment" was influenced by Dupin. In the first Sherlock Holmes story, "A Study in Scarlet" (1887), Doctor Watson compares Holmes to Dupin, to which Holmes replies: "No doubt you think you are complimenting me ... In my opinion, Dupin was a very inferior fellow... He had some analytical genius, no doubt; but he was by no means such a phenomenon as Poe appears to imagine". Alluding to an episode in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", where Dupin
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