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 decided to take on the case-and sent his fictional detective, C. Auguste Dupin, to solve the baffling murder of Mary Rogers in "The Mystery of Marie Rogt."
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- Murder
- History and criticism
- Sources
- American Detective and mystery stories
- History
- Nonfiction
- True Crime
- New York Times reviewed
- Detective and mystery stories, history and criticism
- Murder, new york (state)
- Poe, edgar allan, 1809-1849
- Rogers, mary joseph, 1882-1955
- American literature, history and criticism
- History and Cricitism
- Rogers, Mary, 1820-1841
- New York
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1949, Mystery of Marie Roget
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