For ten points, name this character who solves the mysteries of The Purloined Letter and of the murder of Madame L'Espanaye in The Murders at the Rue Morgue created by Edgar Allan Poe.
This character is accused of having a quarrel with the algebraists of Paris.This character determines that his companion, after being run into by a fruiterer, isthinking of the actor Chantilly. This man hires a man to shoot a musket in the streetas a (+) distraction while he visits a hotel and takes out an advertisement lookingfor a sailor on a Maltese vessel. This man correctly identifies a missing object despite it having a black instead of red (*) seal and deduces that it was turned inside out, and also argues that superhuman strength would be necessary to decapitate a victim and shove her daughter up a chimney. For ten points, name this character who solves the mysteries of The Purloined Letter and of the murder of Madame L'Espanaye in The Murders at the Rue Morgue created by Edgar Allan Poe.
This character is accused of having a quarrel with the algebraists of Paris.
C. Auguste Dupin (accept either underlined part)