The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, And The Invention Of Murder
by Daniel Stashower
2020-12-31 22:00:55
The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, And The Invention Of Murder
by Daniel Stashower
2020-12-31 22:00:55
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 decide...
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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 Rogt."
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