The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder Hardcover - 2006
by Daniel Stashower
A gruesome murder, a stunned city, and Edgar Allan Poe come to life with vivid detail in this shocking true story by award-winning author Daniel Stashower
On July 28, 1841, the battered body of a young woman was found floating in the Hudson River. It was soon discovered to be the lovely Mary Rogers, a twenty-year-old cigar salesgirl who had gone missing three days earlier. By nightfall, news of the girl's death had spread and sent Manhattan into a spasm of horror and outrage.
In the months that followed, the gruesome details of the murder pushed American journalism into previously unimagined realms of lurid sensationalism. But despite media pressures, New York City's unregulated and disjointed police force proved unable to mount an effective investigation, and the crime remained unsolved.
A year after Mary Rogers was murdered, as public interest in the case began to wane, a struggling writer named Edgar Allan Poe decided to take on the case. At the time of the murder, thirty-one-year-old Poe had recently published his groundbreaking detective story 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue.' A year later, however, his fortunes had taken a downward turn. Desperate for success, Poe sent his famous detective, C. Auguste Dupin, on the case of a lifetime: to solve the baffling murder of Mary Rogers in 'The Mystery of Marie Rogêt.'
In The Beautiful Cigar Girl, Edgar Award-winning author Daniel Stashower deftly captures the drama and mystery of New York in the mid-nineteenth century, illuminating the spellbinding crime that transformed a city.
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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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- Title The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder
- Author Daniel Stashower
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Printing
- Pages 326
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dutton Books, New York
- Date October 5, 2006
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780525949817 / 052594981X
- Weight 1.16 lbs (0.53 kg)
- Dimensions 9.28 x 6.56 x 1.07 in (23.57 x 16.66 x 2.72 cm)
- Ages 14 to UP years
- Grade levels 9 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Detective and mystery stories, American -, Murder - New York (State) - New York -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006019335
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.3
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