A review by alundeberg
The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder by Daniel Stashower

3.0

Overall Stashower presents interesting material about a grisly murder, the role of newspapers, and the life of Edgar Allan Poe. The real star of the story is his depiction of life in 1840s New York City-- when Lower Manhattan was the hub of all the action and 84th Street was surrounded by farm land. Much of this narrative is repetitive and the second half slogs through the finish.