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100 1 Stashower, Daniel.
245 14 The beautiful cigar girl :|bMary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe,
and the invention of murder /|cDaniel Stashower.
264 1 New York :|bDutton,|c[2006]
264 4 |c©2006
300 viii, 326 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-315) and
index.
505 0 Prologue : descent into maelstrom -- 1. A gallant gay
Lothario -- 2. I tremble for the consequence -- 3. Left
home on Sunday -- 4. Very clever with his pen -- 5. A
person of chastity -- 6. The dead house -- 7. The sable
divinity of night -- 8. The committee of concerned
citizens -- 9. A most notorious scoundrel -- 10. The lost
hour -- 11. Crackpots and gossipists -- 12. The murder
thicket -- 13. A somewhat wasted heart -- 14. A wave of
crimson -- 15. A series of coincidences -- 16. A mansion
built on baby skulls -- 17. The vanishing rowboat -- 18.
At variance with truth -- 19. It may not be improper to
record -- 20. The imp of the perverse -- Epilogue : one
last wild cry.
520 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.
600 10 Poe, Edgar Allan,|d1809-1849.|tMystery of Marie Roget
|xSources.
600 10 Rogers, Mary,|d1820-1841.
650 0 Detective and mystery stories, American|xHistory and
criticism.
650 0 Murder|zNew York (State)|zNew York|xHistory|y19th century.
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