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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... remained bound to Payne , and was often seen strolling arm in arm with him on Broadway . Crommelin , much to his distress , found himself treated as if he were a kindly uncle . By June of 1841 , Crommelin's festering resentments came to ...
... remained bound to Payne , and was often seen strolling arm in arm with him on Broadway . Crommelin , much to his distress , found himself treated as if he were a kindly uncle . By June of 1841 , Crommelin's festering resentments came to ...
第 148 頁
... remained in town , he feared she might have had him arrested . If the young woman with whom he passed the night in Staten Island had indeed been Mary Rogers , Morse maintained , he could offer no clue as to her final fate . In ...
... remained in town , he feared she might have had him arrested . If the young woman with whom he passed the night in Staten Island had indeed been Mary Rogers , Morse maintained , he could offer no clue as to her final fate . In ...
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... remained in the thicket specified for a longer period than a single week . " Dupin gives several ad- ditional reasons for this conclusion . First , he remarks , experience has shown that it is extremely difficult for a “ lover of nature ...
... remained in the thicket specified for a longer period than a single week . " Dupin gives several ad- ditional reasons for this conclusion . First , he remarks , experience has shown that it is extremely difficult for a “ lover of nature ...
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