num_pages: 400
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 Rogt."
language: English
title: The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder
titlecomplete: The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder
characters: Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Rogers
genres: Historical, True Crime, Crime, History, Books About Books, Biography, American History, 19th Century, Nonfiction, Mystery
ratings_count: 1990
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Macavity Award
category: Best Nonfiction, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Critical Nonfiction, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Agatha Award
category: Best Nonfiction, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Fact Crime
publisher: Berkley