The Beautiful Cigar Girl - Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder

Informationen zum Autor Daniel Stashower Klappentext 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." Zusammenfassung 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."

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Stashower, Stashower Daniel
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.12.2007
• EAN: 9780425217825
• ISBN: 978-0-425-21782-5
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 202 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, Crime & mystery, True Crime, TRUE CRIME / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literature: history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, Crime and / or mystery fiction