The beautiful cigar girl

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."

First sentence: IN JUNE OF 1842, Edgar Allan Poe took up his pen to broach a delicate subject with an old friend.

Year

2006

Language

English

Publisher

Dutton

Editions

7

Pages

326

ISBN

9780525949817

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