The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder

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 Rogt."

Author: Daniel Stashower
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Berkley Books
Published: 12/04/2007
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 7.42h x 5.60w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9780425217825