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

by Daniel Stashower

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Traces the July 1841 murder investigation that was marked by sensational media coverage and the debut of Edgar Allen Poe, whose short stories "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Mystery of Marie Roget" associated him with the crime.
  • ISBN10 052594981X
  • ISBN13 9780525949817
  • Publish Date 5 October 2006
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 4 May 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Dutton Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 326
  • Language English