The Beautiful Cigar Girl
- Authors
- Stashower, Daniel
- Publisher
- Berkley Books
- Tags
- history , mystery , biography
- ISBN
- 9781440620485
- Date
- 2006-10-05T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.32 MB
- Lang
- en
On July 28, 1841, the body of Mary Rogers, a twenty-year-old cigar girl, was found floating in the Hudson-and New York's unregulated police force proved incapable of solving the crime. One year later, a struggling writer named Edgar Allan Poe decided to take on the case-and sent his fictional detective, C. Auguste Dupin, to solve the baffling murder of Mary Rogers in "The Mystery of Marie Rog�t."