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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Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder Daniel Stashower. ancy reflects a decline in social status from ... Rogers's first marriage had died in the space of only five years . To compound the family's grief , a steamship ...
Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder Daniel Stashower. ancy reflects a decline in social status from ... Rogers's first marriage had died in the space of only five years . To compound the family's grief , a steamship ...
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... Rogers's death , Madame Restell was very much in the public eye . In July of 1841 — just a few days before Mary Rogers's body was discovered - Madame Restell was tried in New York's Court of Special Sessions for administering " certain ...
... Rogers's death , Madame Restell was very much in the public eye . In July of 1841 — just a few days before Mary Rogers's body was discovered - Madame Restell was tried in New York's Court of Special Sessions for administering " certain ...
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... Rogers's sexual violation had been strangely ambiguous . While he had stated confidently that the victim had been " brutally vio- lated by no fewer than three assailants , " he also asserted that prior to that time Mary Rogers had ...
... Rogers's sexual violation had been strangely ambiguous . While he had stated confidently that the victim had been " brutally vio- lated by no fewer than three assailants , " he also asserted that prior to that time Mary Rogers had ...
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