Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Pashure pokunyora mimwe mitambo yakabudirira, Dumas akachinja ndokutanga kunyora mabhuku. Kunyange zvazvo ainakidzwa noupenyu hwoumbozha uye aigara achishandisa mari yakawanda kupfuura yaaiwana, Dumas akaratidza kuti aiva nyanzvi yokutengesa. Sezvo mapepanhau akanga achibudisa manyoro anoverengeka. Nhoroondo yake yokutanga yakanga iri "La Comtesse de Salisbury; Édouard III" (July-September 1836). Muna 1838, Dumas akanyorazve imwe yemitambo yake senovhero yakabudirira, "Le Capitaine Paul". Akavamba studio yokugadzira, yaishanda nevanyori vakabudisa mazana enhau, dzose dzichiratidzwa nokutungamirira kwake kwomunhu oga, kugadziridza, uye kuwedzera. Kubva muna 1839 kusvika muna 1841, Dumas, achibatsirwa neshamwari dzake dzinoverengeka, akaunganidza "Celebrated Crimes", muunganidzwa wemabhuku masere ezvinyorwa pamusoro pevapari vemhosva vakakurumbira uye mhosva dzomuzana remakore reEurope. Iye akaratidzira Beatrice Cenci, Martin Guerre, Cesare naLucrezia Borgia, pamwe nezviitiko zvenguva pfupi yapfuura nematsotsi, kusanganisira nyaya dzevanofungidzirwa mhondi Karl Ludwig Sand naAntoine François Desrues, avo vakaurayiwa. Dumas akashanda naAugustin Grisier, tenzi wake wokurwa, munoverengeka yake ya1840, "The Fencing Master". Nhau yacho yakanyorwa sokurondedzera kwaGrisier kwokuti akasvika sei pakuona zvinoitika zve
Kumukira kwaDecembrist muRussia. Pakupedzisira bhuku racho rakarambidzwa muRussia naCzar Nicholas I, uye Dumas akarambidzwa kushanyira nyika yacho kutozosvikira pashure porufu rwaCzar. Dumas anotaura nezvaGrisier noruremekedzo rukuru mu"The Count of Monte Cristo", "The Corsican Brothers", uye mumashoko ake okuyeuka.