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The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, And The Invention Of Murder

by Daniel Stashower

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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 decide... Read more
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." Less

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File size7.99 X 5.13 X 0.86 in
Print pages400
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
Publication date December 4, 2007
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780425217825
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Daniel Stashower
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DANIEL STASHOWER is an acclaimed biographer and narrative historian and winner of the Edgar, Agatha, and Anthony awards, and the Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellowship in Detective Fiction. His work...

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