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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... body proved to be that of a young woman , hideously bruised and waterlogged , floating on her back with her arms crossed stiffly at her chest , and a cloud of dark hair pulsing like seaweed in the water . Reluctant to touch the corpse ...
... body proved to be that of a young woman , hideously bruised and waterlogged , floating on her back with her arms crossed stiffly at her chest , and a cloud of dark hair pulsing like seaweed in the water . Reluctant to touch the corpse ...
第 79 頁
... body had been brought ashore at Castle Point . Wordlessly , Crommelin and Padley changed di- rection and hurried to the spot . As they approached the outcropping and saw the knot of bystanders huddled around the sodden corpse , Crom ...
... body had been brought ashore at Castle Point . Wordlessly , Crommelin and Padley changed di- rection and hurried to the spot . As they approached the outcropping and saw the knot of bystanders huddled around the sodden corpse , Crom ...
第 158 頁
... body's decomposition , rendering it probable that Crommelin would have been able to recognize the dead woman's fea- tures . Since he did not , the reasoning went , the body had probably been submerged for a longer period , and therefore ...
... body's decomposition , rendering it probable that Crommelin would have been able to recognize the dead woman's fea- tures . Since he did not , the reasoning went , the body had probably been submerged for a longer period , and therefore ...
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