The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and The Invention of Murder Softcover - 2007
by STASHOWER, Daniel
- Used
- near fine
- first
The author of Edgar winner "Teller of Tales" recounts the story of Manhattan tobacco store clerk Mary Rogers, whose murder in 1841 fueled a public outcry. Edgar Allan Poe began a fictional magazine serial featuring his famous detective Dupin speculating on the murder of the working-class girl, thus beginning the modern detective story.
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- Title The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and The Invention of Murder
- Author STASHOWER, Daniel
- Binding Softcover
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Near Fine
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Berkley Books, New York
- Date 2007
- Features Bibliography, Glossary, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 566490
- ISBN 9780425217825 / 0425217825
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 7.42 x 5.6 x 0.88 in (18.85 x 14.22 x 2.24 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1800-1850
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Locality: New York, N.Y.
- Library of Congress subjects Detective and mystery stories, American -, Poe, Edgar Allan
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.3
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Citations
- New York Times Book Review, 12/30/2007, Page 20
