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...and with excellent results!
This is really two intertwining stories, both fascinating and vividly detailed.

I have read other accounts of the Rogers murder mystery, but this is the only one that deserves to be read.

For over fifty years I have been reading Poe - and books about Poe - and this one, with a rare touch, fairly,
and without tedious intellectual license, fully presents "pauvre Eddie": brilliant, dim, doomed.

Impressively researched antebellum period: locations, customs and personages brought to life
with just the right amount of information to provide the necessary ambiance.
And as a murder mystery, detective story - or tale of ratiocination - this is truly a tour de force, with cross-cutting
between events and characters that makes it a real page-turner.

One very minor quibble: Mr. Stashower, to his great credit, mentions the overlap between Andrew Jackson Davis and Edgar Poe,
yet fails to credit Davis for indirectly inspiring Poe's Eureka essay. Some elaboration on that likelihood might have been illuminating, considering how excited Edgar was with the prospect of having it published - and how similar it is to Davis' Principles of Nature.

But above all, for those who appreciate good history (particularly American) and good detective work, this is a marvelously readable book.


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The Beautiful Cigar Girl Mary Rogers Edgar Allan Poe and the Invention of Murder Daniel Stashower Books Reviews

Being a Poe enthusiast as well as a history and true crime buff, I have found this book fascinating. The author does a good job of telling two stories at the same time - first the story of Poe, his upbringing and his erratic behavior throughout his life and second the story of the beautiful and tragic Mary Rogers. I love the way he intertwines the stories and draw the paralells between the two. The author draws you into the story in the way a good mystery novel would and makes it come to life on the page. I am glad that I bought this book!
A true-crime book that reads like a novel (because that's what Daniel Stashower does best). Not quite sure how this case "invented murder, though...
Not very compelling; didn’t feel as though I learned anything new about the case.
This book gets so-so reviews. I thought it was very good. I am very curious about Poe's personality and life and this book shows some facets that are new. It also shows the attitude towards women and murdered women in the middle of America's 19th century. I liked it. I am glad I bought it and read it.
I rated this book three because I felt it disorganized in several aspects. Rather than a chronological narrative of Poe' s life and the Mary Rodgers case, there was too much moving back and forth through time which I believe was confusing and unnecessary.
I did enjoy the information about Poe's life integrated with his writing successes. Such a waste that his personality and addictions resulted in an early death for this great talent.
Daniel Stashower's THE BEAUTIFUL CIGAR GIRL is a remarkable piece of research, both with the murder of the Cigar Girl, Mary Rogers and with the focused and not always flattering look at Edgar Allan Poe. He also does a great job of dissecting the Big Apple back when there was something dark and festering at its core.
This isn't a novel so some may not like the way some things were left unanswered but that's real life. Real life mysteries aren't always neatly wrapped up in a bow in less than a CSI-hour.
If you want to read a wonderful real life mystery book then this is the one for you. The 'good old days' weren't always good and neither was Mister Poe and Stashower does an excellent job of reminding us of this.
It also offers up some interesting facts as well, such as Edgar Allan Poe was a Sergeant Major in the Army, occasionally dined with Thomas Jefferson, and that the gangs of New York weren't the only thugs in town.
Good stuff!
THE BEAUTIFUL CIGAR GIRL is attention-holding social and literary history nimbly written by Daniel Stashower. It is the story of a real crime committed in July 1841 in or about New York City that transfixed the media of the day, challenged Edgar Allan Poe to put his detective fiction theories to the test and transformed New York before eventually fading away in the public consciousness a few decades later.

If there is something to be learned by the ubiquitous episodes of the "Law and Order" and "CSI" franchises, it is that a murder is never straightforward. Just like those shows, when the lovely, alluring yet innocent seeming Manhattan store clerk who worked in a popular smoke shop frequented by men of all walks of life goes missing and her body is later found washing up near a waterfront park in Hoboken, New Jersey, Pandora's box is opened. Circumstantial evidence suggests connections to the city's gang culture and abortionists. There is a revolving door of individual suspects, too, who may or may not have been the victim's swains. The police department is largely night watchmen and process servers prone to corruption and unequal to the task of fighting and detecting crime. Then the media steps in and it is hyped beyond belief. In Philadelphia, where he has taken umbrage after burning just about every personal and professional bridge in New York, Poe reads the newspaper accounts and realizes that his ever-present money problems and professional ambitions could be resolved by inserting the fictive detecting methods he created for "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." He puts himself on the line, advertising that in his new story starring his detective Dupin, "The Mystery of Marie Roget," he will solve the puzzle.

To say more is to spoil this very real plot. I think Stashower does a fine job of balancing and interweaving the various strands of biography, social history, crime detection and the birth of detective fiction. He has a very direct but graceful way of writing and ordering his information. He evokes 19th century New York vividly. If you liked THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY, then you should enjoy this. My only complaint, too small to demote the book a star, is that I wish the author were more explicit as to naming his sources when he quotes, for instance, "a writer of the day." There is a considerable bibliography at the end, but no idea which source gave up what information per se.
...and with excellent results!
This is really two intertwining stories, both fascinating and vividly detailed.

I have read other accounts of the Rogers murder mystery, but this is the only one that deserves to be read.

For over fifty years I have been reading Poe - and books about Poe - and this one, with a rare touch, fairly,
and without tedious intellectual license, fully presents "pauvre Eddie" brilliant, dim, doomed.

Impressively researched antebellum period locations, customs and personages brought to life
with just the right amount of information to provide the necessary ambiance.
And as a murder mystery, detective story - or tale of ratiocination - this is truly a tour de force, with cross-cutting
between events and characters that makes it a real page-turner.

One very minor quibble Mr. Stashower, to his great credit, mentions the overlap between Andrew Jackson Davis and Edgar Poe,
yet fails to credit Davis for indirectly inspiring Poe's Eureka essay. Some elaboration on that likelihood might have been illuminating, considering how excited Edgar was with the prospect of having it published - and how similar it is to Davis' Principles of Nature.

But above all, for those who appreciate good history (particularly American) and good detective work, this is a marvelously readable book.