Mystery film include "The Gold Bug" (1910), also from France, and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1914). Both are derived from stories by Edgar Allan Poe, which is appropriate as Poe is often credited with creating modern detective fiction as well as the first private detective character, C. Auguste Dupin. Universal Pictures renamed him Pierre Dupin in "Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1932), an atmospheric horror-mystery starring Bela Lugosi. The film was remade twice more in 1953 and 1971. Poe's second Dupin story, "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt", was filmed in 1942. More recently, "The Raven" (2012) presented a fictionalized account
Mr. Wong (fictional detective) Mr. Wong (fictional detective) James Lee Wong, known simply as Mr. Wong, is a fictional Chinese-American detective created by Hugh Wiley (1884–1968). Mr Wong appeared in magazine stories and a series of films. In his story "No Witnesses", Wiley describes Mr. Wong as six feet tall, educated at Yale University and "with the face of a foreign devil-a Yankee". In the stories he is an agent of the United States Treasury Department and lives in San Francisco. Twelve stories were published in Colliers Magazine from 1934 to 1938. These were all collected in the volume "Murder by the Dozen" in