Language

English

Word Count

81,750 words, Guess

Page Count

327 pages

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Description

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 Roget."

Subjects

Topics

MurderHistoryNew YorkHistory and CricitismRogers, Mary, 1820-1841American Detective and Mystery StoriesPoe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1949, Mystery of Marie Roget

Times

Other Editions

  • The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allen, Poe and the Invention of Murder

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