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

  by Daniel Stashower

  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 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... (more)