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,
Police procedural gathering evidence, search warrants, interrogation and adherence to legal restrictions and procedure. The roots of the police procedural have been traced to at least the mid-1880s. Wilkie Collins's novel "The Moonstone" (1868), a tale of a Scotland Yard detective investigating the theft of a valuable diamond, has been described as perhaps the earliest clear example of the genre. As detective fiction rose to worldwide popularity in the late 1800s and early 1900s, many of the pioneering and most popular characters, at least in the English-speaking world, were private investigators or amateurs. See C. Auguste Dupin, Sherlock Holmes, Sam Spade, Miss