The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder
Language: English
19th Century General History Literary Criticism Murder Mystery & Detective Non-F True Crime United States
Publisher: Penguin
Published: Dec 4, 2007
Language: English
19th Century General History Literary Criticism Murder Mystery & Detective Non-F True Crime United States
Publisher: Penguin
Published: Dec 4, 2007
Description:
On July 28, 1841, the body of Mary Rogers, a twenty-year-old cigar girl, was found floating in the Hudson-and New York's unregulated police force proved incapable of solving the crime. One year later, a struggling writer named Edgar Allan Poe decided to take on the case-and sent his fictional detective, C. Auguste Dupin, to solve the baffling murder of Mary Rogers in "The Mystery of Marie Rog t.
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