The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder
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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...
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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 Rog�t."
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- Pages:326 pages
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- Publisher:Dutton Books
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- Language:eng
- ISBN10:052594981X
- ISBN13:9780525949817
- kindle Asin:B000W94GGS