Title: The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers
First published: 1995
Description: In the summer of 1841, Mary Rogers, a young woman known popularly as "The Beautiful Cigar Girl," disappeared from her boarding house on Nassau Street in downtown New York. Three days later, her body, badly bruised and water-logged, was found floating in the shallow waters of the Hudson River just a few feet from the Jersey shore. Long a celebrated unsolved mystery, this case was a major cause celebre in New York City.

In The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers, the historian Amy Gilman Srebnick traces the story of Mary Rogers, using her death as a window into the urban culture and consciousness of mid-nineteenth-century New York.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Murder, Sex role, Sex crimes, City and town life, History, New york (n.y.), history, Murder, new york (state), Sex crimes, united states, Social Environment, Homicide, Sex Offenses, Gender Identity, Life Style
Places: New York (State), New York, New York (N.Y.)
People: Mary Rogers (1820-1841)
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: HV6534.N5 S69 1995