false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172385635m/171112.jpg 171112 6 <B>A gruesome murder, a stunned city, and Edgar Allan Poe come to life with vivid detail in this shocking true story by award-winning author Daniel Stashower</B> <BR><BR> <P>On July 28, 1841, the battered body of a young woman was found floating in the Hudson River. It was soon discovered to be the lovely Mary Rogers, a twenty-year-old cigar salesgirl who had gone missing three days earlier. By nightfall, news of the girl's death had spread and sent Manhattan into a spasm of horror and outrage. <P> In the months that followed, the gruesome details of the murder pushed American journalism into previously unimagined realms of lurid sensationalism. But despite media pressures, New York City's unregulated and disjointed police force proved unable to mount an effective investigation, and the crime remained unsolved. <P> A year after Mary Rogers was murdered, as public interest in the case began to wane, a struggling writer named Edgar Allan Poe decided to take on the case. At the time of the murder, thirty-one-year-old Poe had recently published his groundbreaking detective story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." A year later, however, his fortunes had taken a downward turn. Desperate for success, Poe sent his famous detective, C. Auguste Dupin, on the case of a lifetime: to solve the baffling murder of Mary Rogers in "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt." <P> In <I>The Beautiful Cigar Girl</I>, Edgar Award-winning author Daniel Stashower deftly captures the drama and mystery of New York in the mid-nineteenth century, illuminating the spellbinding crime that transformed a city. <P> A Featured Alternate selection of Book-of-the-Month Club, Mystery Guild, Literary Guild, Doubleday and Quality Paperback book clubs. 1537176 5 10 2006 The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder total:227|5:23|4:69|3:97|2:30|1:8| 227 750 414 76 3 0 false false Wed Oct 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 01 11:32:48 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 06:38:51 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Jul 31 06:19:06 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 07:13:06 -0700 2009
Mary Rogers, the cigar of the title, was a woman who was murdered in New York. The sto...more...]]> 3 0 false true Tue Aug 18 21:17:27 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 20:06:38 -0700 2009
It's not about the invention of murder because:
1) murder was invented long before 1841
2) Poe didn't invent murder - Poe never murdered anybody (except perhaps himself)
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I am grateful to this author for teaching me the expression "Let's liquor," which he says was in common usage in the 1840s. No wonder Poe had troubles with alcohol.

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