| The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder Contributor(s): Stashower, Daniel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0425217825 ISBN-13: 9780425217825 Publisher: Berkley Books OUR PRICE: $22.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2007 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - True Crime | Murder - General - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | Mystery & Detective Fiction |
| Dewey: 813.3 |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 5.6" W x 7.42" (0.70 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Geographic Orientation - New York - Locality - New York, N.Y. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |