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

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 noi 2007

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Edgar Allan Poe Awards (2007), Agatha Awards (2006), Macavity Award (2007)

On July 28, 1841, the body of Mary Rogers, a twenty-year-old cigar girl, was found floating in the Hudson-and New York's unregulated police force proved incapable of solving the crime. One year later, a struggling writer named Edgar Allan Poe decided to take on the case-and sent his fictional detective, C. Auguste Dupin, to solve the baffling murder of Mary Rogers in "The Mystery of Marie Rog?t."

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780425217825
ISBN-10: 0425217825
Pagini: 386
Dimensiuni: 142 x 188 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Berkley Publishing Group

Descriere

The author of Edgar winner "Teller of Tales" recounts the story of Manhattan tobacco store clerk Mary Rogers, whose murder in 1841 fueled a public outcry. Edgar Allan Poe began a fictional magazine serial featuring his famous detective Dupin speculating on the murder of the working-class girl, thus beginning the modern detective story.

Notă biografică

A journalist whose articles have appeared in numerous national publications, including the New York Times and Smithsonian magazine, Daniel Stashower is also the author of five mystery novels and Teller of Tales, the Edgar Award–winning biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Stashower lives with his wife and son in Bethesda, Maryland.

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Edgar Allan Poe Awards Nominee, 2007
Agatha Awards Nominee, 2006
Macavity Award Nominee, 2007
Anthony Awards Nominee, 2007

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