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The usual suspect: Edgar Allan Poe, consulting detective.(The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder)(Book review)

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From: Harper's Magazine
Date: 20070101
Author:Krystal, Arthur

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The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder, by Daniel Stashower. Dutton. 326 pages. $25.95.

It is possible, if one is so disposed, to argue about who wrote the first poem or the first novel, or who was the first to use stream-of-consciousness in fiction. But there's no disputing who invented the formal detective story. Until "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" materialized in 1841, nothing like it had ever been seen. Literature had its share of plays and stories dealing with crime and punishment, but the ...

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