The Beautiful Cigar Girl
Subtitle: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Published: October 5, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780525949817
Subjects: Murder - General; True Crime / Espionage; New York (State); Literary Criticism; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Special Subjects In Literature; New York; History and criticism; Mystery of Marie Roget; Murder; True Crime / Murder; American - General; Poe, Edgar Allan,; Sources; 1809-1849; 19th century; Detective and mystery stories, American; History
First sentence: IN JUNE OF 1842, Edgar Allan Poe took up his pen to broach a delicate subject with an old friend.