The Beautiful Cigar Girl
Author | : Daniel Stashower |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2007-12-04 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 1440620482 |
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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."