C. Auguste Dupin with artistic imagination. As an observer, he pays special attention to what is unintended, such as hesitation, eagerness or a casual or inadvertent word. Dupin's method also emphasizes the importance of reading and writing: many of his clues come from newspapers or written reports from the Prefect. This device also engages the readers, who follow along by reading the clues themselves. Poe may have gotten the last name "Dupin" from a character in a series of stories first published "Burton's Gentleman's Magazine" in 1828 called "Unpublished passages in the Life of Vidocq, the French Minister of Police". The name also
Mr. Wong (fictional detective) Mr. Wong (fictional detective) James Lee Wong, known simply as Mr. Wong, is a fictional Chinese-American detective created by Hugh Wiley (1884–1968). Mr Wong appeared in magazine stories and a series of films. In his story "No Witnesses", Wiley describes Mr. Wong as six feet tall, educated at Yale University and "with the face of a foreign devil-a Yankee". In the stories he is an agent of the United States Treasury Department and lives in San Francisco. Twelve stories were published in Colliers Magazine from 1934 to 1938. These were all collected in the volume "Murder by the Dozen" in