The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of MurderDutton, 2006 - 326 Seiten 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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... City . At the time Nas- sau Street had been dubbed " the city's brain " for its many newspaper and publishing offices , " pulsating ever with the beating of a printing engine , " though there were still some in the neighborhood who ...
... City . At the time Nas- sau Street had been dubbed " the city's brain " for its many newspaper and publishing offices , " pulsating ever with the beating of a printing engine , " though there were still some in the neighborhood who ...
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... city buzzed with outlandish and often contradictory speculation . The New Era , an advocate of moral rectitude ... city's economic slump , along with a growing influx of Irish immigrants , created an increasingly volatile climate ...
... city buzzed with outlandish and often contradictory speculation . The New Era , an advocate of moral rectitude ... city's economic slump , along with a growing influx of Irish immigrants , created an increasingly volatile climate ...
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... city is , men are robbed in the street . Thousands that are arrested go unpunished and the defenseless and the ... city's many com- mercial abortion parlors . As it happened , the passage of the Abortion Law received a strong push ...
... city is , men are robbed in the street . Thousands that are arrested go unpunished and the defenseless and the ... city's many com- mercial abortion parlors . As it happened , the passage of the Abortion Law received a strong push ...
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Descent into the Maelstrom | 1 |
Her Dark Smile | 11 |
A Gallant Gay Lothario | 13 |
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