The beautiful cigar girl : Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the invention of murder / Daniel Stashower.
TITLE:
The beautiful cigar girl : Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the invention of murder / Daniel Stashower.
Publication Date:
2006
Publication Information:
New York : Dutton,
Physical Description:
326 p.
Summary:
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.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780525949817
