The beautiful cigar girl
Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the invention of murder
by Daniel Stashower
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Traces the July 1841 murder investigation that was marked by sensational media coverage and the debut of Edgar Allen Poe, whose short stories "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Mystery of Marie Roget" associated him with the crime.
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Murder, History and criticism, Sources, American Detective and mystery stories, History, Nonfiction, True Crime, New York Times reviewed, Detective and mystery stories, history and criticism, Murder, new york (state), Poe, edgar allan, 1809-1849, Rogers, mary joseph, 1882-1955, American literature, history and criticismPlaces
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The Beautiful Cigar Girl
2008, Penguin Group USA, Inc.
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The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder
December 4, 2007, Berkley Trade
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The beautiful cigar girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the invention of murder
2006, Dutton
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The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder
October 5, 2006, Dutton Adult
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-315) and index.
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"IN JUNE OF 1842, Edgar Allan Poe took up his pen to broach a delicate subject with an old friend."
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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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