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,
Detective fiction a few debut and swansong stories: Detective fiction Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—either professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder. The detective genre began around the same time as speculative fiction and other genre fiction in the mid-nineteenth century and has remained extremely popular, particularly in novels. Some of the most famous heroes of detective fiction include C. Auguste Dupin, Sherlock Holmes, and Hercule Poirot. Juvenile stories featuring The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, and The Boxcar Children have also remained in print for several decades. Some