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The beautiful cigar girl; Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Rogers, and the invention of murder.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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The beautiful cigar girl; Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Rogers, and the invention of murder.

Stashower, Daniel.

Dutton Books

2006

326 pages

$25.95

Hardcover

PS2618

Stashower (mystery writer and Edgar Award-winning biographer of Arthur Conan Doyle) tells the sensational real-life story of the 1841 murder of Mary Rogers, New York City's "beautiful cigar girl"--along with the real-life story of how Edgar Allen Poe transformed the crime into the short story that would invent modern detective fiction and that he hoped would turn his failing ...

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