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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murderby: Daniel Stashower  List Price: $25.95 Amazon.com's Price: $6.99 You Save: $18.96 (73%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 813.3 Format: Bargain Price Label: Dutton Adult Manufacturer: Dutton Adult Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: October 05, 2006 Publisher: Dutton Adult Studio: Dutton Adult Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Readers who flocked to Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City will love award-winning author Daniel Stashower's true story of murder and media manipulation- including the controversial involvement of Edgar Allan Poe-in 1840s New York. Unabridged CDs - 10 CDs, 12 hours Average Rating:
 Rating:  - neither fish nor fowlauthor pursued two story lines and really did justice to neither. as an earlier review states, there was no real solution to the murder mystery. I learned quite a bit about Poe(he could have not invented a more tragic character than himself), but might have done so more easily by picking up a biography. Whether I would have done so is another story, so maybe Stashower achieved something here. still feel larson is more successful in weaving together two plots. Rating: - When fact and fiction collideAn interesting book about the intersection of two lives: Mary Rogers, a popular local girl in 19th century New York who died under mysterious circumstances and Edgar Allan Poe who fictionalized Mary's story and used his literary prowess to try and clear up the questions surrounding her death. In all honesty, the most interesting bits of this book were the parts that focused exclusively on the Mary Rogers case itself. It is a very bizarre and unique true-crime story with all sorts of interesting ... Read More Rating:  - Murdered, or Victim of a Botched Abortion?When I purchased The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder, I was expecting something more along the line of The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl; that is historical fiction - fictional characters set against the backdrop of an historical story and setting. The Beautiful Cigar Girl is Daniel Stashower's (Teller of Tales) attempt to recount the story of Mary Rogers, a Manhattan tobacco store clerk whose mutilated corpse was discovered afloat in the Hudson ... Read More Rating:  - One girl goes missing and transforms historyTHE 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" ... Read More Rating: - Interesting but far from spectacularThis book basically attempts to cover the sort of history/crime nonfiction that Erik Larsen mined so profitably in "Devil in the White City" and "Thunderstruck" (neither of which is quite as gripping as Larsen's non-crime-oriented "Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History.") But Daniel Stashower's effort to link a once-famed/now-forgotten crime and Edgar Allan Poe's career is, alas, only intermittently interesting. 
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