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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... crime - it cannot hide forever . " " Murder will out , " insisted the New York Sunday Mercury , and the press would be the instrument " adopted to help it out . " The Mercury liked to claim credit for being the first newspaper to bring ...
... crime - it cannot hide forever . " " Murder will out , " insisted the New York Sunday Mercury , and the press would be the instrument " adopted to help it out . " The Mercury liked to claim credit for being the first newspaper to bring ...
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... crime without stirring from his armchair , and by means readily available to the casual ob- server . In contrast to " The Murders in the Rue Morgue , " the fact that Dupin did not visit the crime scene was presented as an important com ...
... crime without stirring from his armchair , and by means readily available to the casual ob- server . In contrast to " The Murders in the Rue Morgue , " the fact that Dupin did not visit the crime scene was presented as an important com ...
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... crime writers , " The Mystery of Marie Rogêt " exerted a singular fascination . Conan Doyle was just one of many authors who took a special interest in the interplay between crime fiction and factual crimes , even going so far as to ...
... crime writers , " The Mystery of Marie Rogêt " exerted a singular fascination . Conan Doyle was just one of many authors who took a special interest in the interplay between crime fiction and factual crimes , even going so far as to ...
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