The beautiful cigar girl : Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the invention of murder
Traces the July 1841 murder investigation that was marked by sensational media coverage and the debut of Edgar Allen Poe, whose short stories "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Mystery of Marie Roget" associated him with the crime
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viii, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780525949817, 9780425217825, 052594981X, 0425217825
70199824
Prologue: Descent into maelstrom
A gallant gay Lothario
I tremble for the consequence
Left home on Sunday
Very clever with his pen
A person of chastity
The dead house
The sable divinity of night
The committee of concerned citizens
A most notorious scoundrel
The lost hour
Crackpots and gossipists
The murder thicket
A somewhat wasted heart
A wave of crimson
A series of coincidences
A mansion built on baby skulls
The vanishing rowboat
At variance with truth
It may not be improper to record
The imp of the perverse
Epilogue: One last wild cry