The beautiful cigar girl

About this book

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 Rogt."

Subjects

• american detective and mystery stories
• american literature, history and criticism
• detective and mystery stories, history and criticism
• history
• history and cricitism
• history and criticism
• murder
• murder, new york (state)
• new york
• new york times reviewed
• nonfiction
• poe, edgar allan, 1809-1849
• poe, edgar allan, 1809-1949, mystery of marie roget
• rogers, mary, 1820-1841
• rogers, mary joseph, 1882-1955
• sources
• true crime