The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of MurderDutton, 2006 - 326 頁 On July 28, 1841, 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. In the months that followed, the gruesome details of the murder pushed American journalism into previously unimagined realms of lurid sensationalism. New York City's 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 struggling writer named Edgar Allan Poe decided to take on the case. Desperate for success, Poe sent his famous detective, C. Auguste Dupin, on the case of a lifetime: to solve the baffling murder of Mary Rogers in The Mystery of Marie Rogjt. In The Beautiful Cigar Girl, Edgar Award-winning author Daniel Stashower deftly captures the drama and mystery of New York in the mid-nineteenth century, illuminating the spellbinding crime that transformed a city. |
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第 55 頁
... Payne paused to wonder how Mary had traveled uptown to her aunt's house in the ab- sence of her usual mode of transportation , but the question was soon driven from his head by the approach of a violent summer thunder- storm . Payne ...
... Payne paused to wonder how Mary had traveled uptown to her aunt's house in the ab- sence of her usual mode of transportation , but the question was soon driven from his head by the approach of a violent summer thunder- storm . Payne ...
第 91 頁
... Payne's account of his actions in tones ranging from outrage to ridicule . Payne had testified that Mary intended to visit her aunt , Mrs. Downing , on the Sunday morning of her disappearance , but she had not said so to her mother or ...
... Payne's account of his actions in tones ranging from outrage to ridicule . Payne had testified that Mary intended to visit her aunt , Mrs. Downing , on the Sunday morning of her disappearance , but she had not said so to her mother or ...
第 179 頁
... Payne's death was widely reported as a suicide , the result of despair or perhaps a guilty conscience - over the death of Mary Rogers . Payne's actions in his final days , together with the note found in his pocket , strongly supported ...
... Payne's death was widely reported as a suicide , the result of despair or perhaps a guilty conscience - over the death of Mary Rogers . Payne's actions in his final days , together with the note found in his pocket , strongly supported ...
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