The Beautiful Cigar Girl by Daniel Stashower

The Beautiful Cigar Girl

Daniel Stashower

327 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history mystery true crime dark mysterious slow-paced
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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 deci...

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