C. Auguste Dupin of their around-the-world adventure. A Pierre Dupin appears in Universal Pictures' 1932 horror-mystery film "Murders in the Rue Morgue". "The Mystery of Marie Roget" was also filmed in 1942. Dupin (played by Joseph Cotten) is a character in the 1951 Fletcher Markle film "The Man with a Cloak". Dupin's true identity is revealed at the end of the film to be Poe himself. In the comic series "Batman Confidential", the creation of Batman's crime-solving super-computer which is linked to Interpol, FBI, and CIA databases is introduced. Commonly known as the "Bat Computer," it is originally nicknamed "Dupin," after Batman's "hero."
Police procedural gathering evidence, search warrants, interrogation and adherence to legal restrictions and procedure. The roots of the police procedural have been traced to at least the mid-1880s. Wilkie Collins's novel "The Moonstone" (1868), a tale of a Scotland Yard detective investigating the theft of a valuable diamond, has been described as perhaps the earliest clear example of the genre. As detective fiction rose to worldwide popularity in the late 1800s and early 1900s, many of the pioneering and most popular characters, at least in the English-speaking world, were private investigators or amateurs. See C. Auguste Dupin, Sherlock Holmes, Sam Spade, Miss