The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder - Hardcover

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HardCover. Pub Date :2006-12-1 Pages:. 326 On July 28. I84I. the battered body of a young woman was found floating in the Hudson River It was soon discovered to be the lovely Mary Rogers. a twenty-year- old cigar salesgirl who had gone missing three days earlier. By nightfall. news of the girls death had spread and sent Manhattan into a spasm of horror and outrage. In the months that followed. the grisly details of the murder pushed-American journalism into previously unimagined realms of lurid sensationalism. But despite media pressures. New York itys unregulated and disjointed police force proved unable to mount an effective investigation. and the crime remained unsolved. A year after Mary Rogers was murdered. as public interest in the case began to wane . a truggling writer named Edgar Allan Poe decided to take on the case. At the time of the murder. thirty-one-year-old P...

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A journalist whose articles have appeared in numerous national publications, including the New York Times and Smithsonian magazine, Daniel Stashower is also the author of five mystery novels and Teller of Tales, the Edgar Award-winning biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Stashower lives with his wife and son in Bethesda, Maryland.

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  • PublisherE P Dutton
  • Publication date2006
  • ISBN 10 052594981X
  • ISBN 13 9780525949817
  • BindingHardcover
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