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The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder Paperback - 2007
by Daniel Stashower
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.
Summary
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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IN JUNE OF 1842, Edgar Allan Poe took up his pen to broach a delicate subject with an old friend.
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- Title The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder
- Author Daniel Stashower
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Berkley Books, New York
- Date December 4, 2007
- Illustrated Yes
- 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)
- Ages 14 to UP years
- Grade levels 9 - UP
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- 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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- New York Times Book Review, 12/30/2007, Page 20
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