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...
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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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780425217825 (0425217825)
Publish date: December 4th 2007
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
Writing,
History,
Books About Books,
Adult,
Mystery,
American History,
Historical Mystery,
Crime,
True Crime
I found this book to be thoroughly engaging and I couldn't put it down! Everything about it was satisfying, and I was very impressed with the way that Stashower told the story of Poe and the story of Mary Rogers in a way that did justice to both of their tales. I learned a lot and I was entertaine...
This is a quite enjoyable book about the murder of Mary Rogers and how Poe used the murder to write his short story "Marie Roget". It's an interesting book, not fascinating, but interesting. Mary Rogers, the cigar girl of the title, was a woman who was murdered in New York. The story became headli...
This book is a fascinating look at Edgar Allen Poe, the New York City of the 1840's, and the still unsolved murder of the "beautiful cigar girl", Mary Rogers. Stashower has written a very readable book, similar in style to Erik Larson (Thunderstruck and The Devil in the White City). He uses the murd...
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