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

3.0

I liked this book, but never felt a connection to it. I think that the Poe story was interesting and that the cigar girl murder could have been interesting, but just wasn't. It wanted to be interesting, and it wanted to be Devil in the White City, but really couldn't get there. The plotting felt stale and the murder itself felt too drawn out and subdued for the overall story.