The Beautiful Cigar Girl
Subtitle: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allen, Poe and the Invention of Murder
By: by Daniel Stashower. :
Edition: 2006 Softcover ed.
Publisher: Penguin Group
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780739483282
Subjects: American Detective and Mystery Stories; Murder; History and Cricitism; Rogers, Mary, 1820-1841; New York; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1949, Mystery of Marie Roget; History
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 Roget."