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The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder
by Stashower, Daniel
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +
- ISBN 10
- 0739483285
- ISBN 13
- 9780739483282
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About This Item
New York: Dutton, 2006. Apparent First. Paperback. Very Good +. 326 p.; index and bibliography; a careful and detailed reconstruction of an 1840s murder in New York and its influence on Edgar Allan Poe and on popular conceptions of murder. The murder of Mary Rogers was the inspiration for Poe's Mystery of Marie Roget. VG+
Synopsis
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 Rogt."
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- Bookseller
- Reading Rat (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RRAB1739
- Title
- The Beautiful Cigar Girl
- Author
- Stashower, Daniel
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Apparent First
- ISBN 10
- 0739483285
- ISBN 13
- 9780739483282
- Publisher
- Dutton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- history murder literature Poe
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
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