Auguste Dupin

…Auguste Dupin is a Frenchman of good family and reduced circumstances, aristocratic enough to have educated tastes in an apartment full of books, financially precarious enough that he shares that apartment with a nameless narrator who provides his only consistent social connection.…

…All of that began in eighteen forty one in a Philadelphia magazine with a story about a pair of locked room murders in Paris and a gentleman named Auguste Dupin, who solves them by sitting very still and thinking very precisely.…