The Last Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe: The Troy Dossier true to the character and known history of Poe. The plot concerns an attempt to overthrow the United States government. The novel is one of the earliest to engage the historical Edgar Allan Poe as a protagonist in a detective novel. Poe is considered to be the inventor of the classic tropes of detective fiction with his character C. Auguste Dupin, so it is natural that writers would utilize him in their fictions, especially given the recent rise of the historical novel. Many other writers have done this, including Louis Bayard in "The Pale Blue Eye" and true crime writer
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