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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... manner that will give re- newed impetus to investigation . " Poe's confident tone could not conceal the desperation of his cir- cumstances . Having set a price of forty dollars for his story , he ended his letter on a plaintive note ...
... manner that will give re- newed impetus to investigation . " Poe's confident tone could not conceal the desperation of his cir- cumstances . Having set a price of forty dollars for his story , he ended his letter on a plaintive note ...
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... manner in which Maelzel opened the doors at the front and back of the cabinet to reveal " wheels , pinions , levers , and other machinery , " then held a burning candle at the rear opening to throw a bright light through the interior ...
... manner in which Maelzel opened the doors at the front and back of the cabinet to reveal " wheels , pinions , levers , and other machinery , " then held a burning candle at the rear opening to throw a bright light through the interior ...
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... manner in which Poe chose to fill them showed extraordinary flashes of inspiration set off by an equal measure of guile . In several important respects , Poe had reason to feel pride in his interpretation of the case . The manner in ...
... manner in which Poe chose to fill them showed extraordinary flashes of inspiration set off by an equal measure of guile . In several important respects , Poe had reason to feel pride in his interpretation of the case . The manner in ...
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