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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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