Edgar Allan Poe and the Murder of Mary Rogers [The Beautiful Cigar Girl]

viii, 326 pp. Originally published in the U.S. as The Beautiful Cigar Girl. An account of Edgar Allan Poe's attempt to solve the murder of Mary Rogers. His efforts came shortly after publication of The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and he later fictionalized them in the short story The Mystery of Marie Roget, which was the first murder mystery based on the details of a true crime.