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The Beautiful Cigar Girl
Mary Rogers, Edgar Allen, Poe and the Invention of Murder
Daniel Stashower · 2010 · 400 pages
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Daniel Stashower meticulously reconstructs the famous 1841 case in New York, in which the body of Mary Rogers, a young woman, was found in the Hudson River. The book intertwines the true story of the crime with the contemporary public's obsession with mystery and sensationalism, and examines how the case was exploited by the press and by Edgar Allan Poe's fiction.
With deep research and an engaging narrative, Stashower offers a vivid portrait of 19th-century New York and women's struggle for agency and safety in a turbulent city.
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| Author | Daniel Stashower |
|---|---|
| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Pages | 400 |
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