History Literature / CAugusteDupin

** There's a long digression in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" heaping scorn on the idea that chess is a measure of intellect. Instead, the narrator claims, whist and draughts do a much better job determining the intelligence of the players

Dupin is the hero of the ''VideoGame/DarkTales'' video game series, in which he investigates mysteries inspired by Poe's most famous stories (including a couple that actually did have him in them in the first place). He is also a significant figure in the ''Videogame/WorldsAlign'' series, also from [[Creator/ERSGameStudios AMAX Interactive]], which crosses ''Dark Tales'' with some of the developer's other properties. Dupine will be featured in the miniseries ''Series/TheFallOfTheHouseOfUsher2023'', portrayed by Creator/CarlLumbly.

Dupin is the hero of the ''VideoGame/DarkTales'' video game series, in which he investigates mysteries inspired by Poe's most famous stories (including a couple that actually did have him in them in the first place). He is also a significant figure in the ''Videogame/WorldsAlign'' series, also from [[Creator/ERSGameStudios AMAX Interactive]], which crosses ''Dark Tales'' with some of the developer's other properties.

Dupin is the hero of the ''VideoGame/DarkTales'' video game series, in which he investigates mysteries inspired by Poe's most famous stories (including a couple that actually did have him in them in the first place). He is also a significant figure in the ''Worlds Align'' series, also from [[Creator/ERSGameStudios AMAX Interactive]], which crosses ''Dark Tales'' with some of the developer's other properties.

%%* KillerGorilla: An orangutan, technically.

* AuthorTract: There's a passage of about a page or so in "The Purloined Letter" in which Dupin explains why mathematicians aren't very good at reasoning. This is tangentially related to the story, but one does wonder if it needed to be explored in such detail.

* GentlemanDetective: Dupin is considered the TropeMaker. He comes from a wealthy family, although at the time of the stories he has been reduced to a more humble lifestyle.

* KillerGorilla: An orangutan, technically.
* LockedRoomMystery: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"

* TheSummation: "The Purloined Letter"

* ImportantCharacterImportantEvidence: In "The Purloined Letter", Dupin finds the titular item because he's the only person clever enough to try to think like the thief does.

* FirstPersonPeriphealNarrator: The story is narrated by the nameless {{Sidekick}}.

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* MiddleNameBasis: We never even find out what Dupin's actual first name is.

* {{Profiling}}: How Dupin figures out where the thief of "The Purloined Letter" hid the letter, and how he figures out the nature of the killer in "The Murders in the Rue-Morgue".

Dupin is the hero of the ''VideoGame/DarkTales'' video game series, in which he investigates mysteries inspired by Poe's most famous stories (including a couple that actually did have him in them in the first place).

* CluelessMystery: In all the stories, Dupin's solutions depend on clues that aren't revealed to the audience until the summation, if then. In ''The Murders in the Rue Morgue'', for example, the only clue Dupin and the readers ''both'' have is the testimony about "the shrill voice". Everything else that Dupin discovers the reader has no way of knowing.

* GentlemanDetective: Dupin is considered the TropeMaker. Dupin came from a wealthy family, although he had been reduced to a more humble lifestyle. Holds the rank of Chevalier (Knight) in the Légion d'honneur. Likes hieroglyphs. Can spell "ratiocination".
* GreatDetective: C. Auguste Dupin.

* InnerMonologueConversation: Probably TropeMaker. Dupin is famously capable of responding to his companion's inner monologue, by deducing from body language what he must have been thinking about. In "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", Dupin shows off his general awesomeness by tracking the narrator's train of thought through fifteen minutes of silent walking and several mental topic shifts, and saying exactly the right thing at the end.

* YearX: The stories all take place in the year "18--". We do know from "The Purloined Letter" that they take place during a time when France is a monarchy, so that narrows it down to 1804 - 1840s (when the stories were published). And since UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars don't seem to be in progress, it may be further narrowed down to 1815 - 1840s.

The 1932 film ''Film/MurdersInTheRueMorgue'' is based very loosely on the first story. Dupin is the hero of the ''VideoGame/DarkTales'' video game series, in which he investigates mysteries inspired by Poe's most famous stories (including a couple that actually did have him in them in the first place).

* {{Profiling}}: How Dupin figures out where the thief of "The Purloined Letter" hid the letter, and how he figures out that the nature of the killer in "The Murders in the Rue-Morgue".
* ReplacedWithReplica: In "The Purloined Letter", after locating the letter, Dupin surreptitiously swaps it for a duplicate letter that obviously doesn't contain the incriminating information that will allow the villain to use it for {{Blackmail}}.

* CluelessMystery: In all the stories, Dupin's solutions depend on clues that aren't revealed to the audience until the summation, if then. In ''The Murders in the Rue Morgue'', for example, the only clue Dupin and the readers ''both'' have is the testimony about "the shrill voice". Everything else that Dupin discovers the reader has no way of knowing..

The 1932 film ''Film/MurdersInTheRueMorgue'' is based very loosely on the first story. Dupin is the hero of the ''VideoGame/DarkTales'' video game series, in which he investigates mysteries inspired by Poe's most famous stories (including a couple that actually did have him in to begin with).

* CluelessMystery: In all the stories, Dupin's solutions depend on clues that aren't revealed to the audience until the summation, if then. In ''The Murders in the Rue Morgue'', for example, the only clue Dupin and the readers ''both'' have is the testimony about "the shrill voice". Everything else that Dupin discovers the reader is completely unaware of.

* LockedRoomMystery: ''The Murders in the Rue Morgue''

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The murder of Marie Rogêt was inspired by the contemporary real-life mystery surrounding the death of a woman named Mary Rogers in New York.

* InnerMonologueConversation: Dupin is famously capable of responding to his companion's inner monologue, by deducing from body language what he must have been thinking about. In "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", Dupin shows off his general awesomeness by tracking the narrator's train of thought through fifteen minutes of silent walking and several mental topic shifts, and saying exactly the right thing at the end.

* YearX: The stories all take place in the year "18--". We do know from "The Purloined Letter" that they take place during a time when France is a monarchy, so that narrows it down to 1804 - 1848 or 1852 – 1870. And since UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars don't seem to be in progress, the first part of that may be further narrowed down to 1815 - 1848.

* YearX: The stories all take place in the year "18--".

* TheSummation: "The Purloined Letter"

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Subverted in "Murders in the Rue Morgue".

* GentlemanDetective: Dupin, considered the TropeMaker.

* HiddenInPlainSight: "The Purloined Letter".