(雪茄女郎之死)The Beautiful Cigar Girl
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On July 28, I84I, the battered body of a young woman was found floating in the Hudson River. It was soon discovered to be the lovely Mary Rogers, a twenty-year-old cigar salesgirl who had gone missing three days earlier. By nightfall, news of the girl's death had spread and sent Manhattan into a spasm of horror and outrage.
In the months that followed, the grisly details of the murder pushed-American journalism into previously unimagined realms of lurid sensationalism. But despite media pressures, New York ity's unregulated and disjointed police force proved unable to mount an effective investigation, and the crime remained unsolved. A year after Mary Rogers was murdered, as public interest in the case began to wane, a truggling writer named Edgar Allan Poe decided to take on the case. At the time of the murder, thirty-one-year-old Poe had recently published his groundbreaking detective story, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." A year later, however, his fortunes had taken a downward turn. Desperate for success, Poe sent his famous detective, C. Auguste Dupin, on the case of a lifetime: to solve the baffling murder of Mary Rogers in "The Mystery of Marie Roget." 作者简介：
Daniel Stashower is the author of the highly acclaimed biography of Arthur Conan Doyle, Teller of Tales, which won the Edgar Award for Best Biographical Work. A winner of the Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellowship, in Detective and Crime Fiction Writing, Stashower is also the author of several mystery novels.
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作者简介：
DANIEL STASHOWER is the author of the highly acclaimed biography of Arthur Conan Doyle, Teller of Tales, which won the Edgar Award for Best Biographical Work. A winner of the Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellowship, in Detective and Crime Fiction Writing, Stashower is also the author of several mystery novels. He lives with his family in Bethesda, Maryland. 目录：
PROLOGUE: Descent into the Maelstrom
PART ONE: Her Dark Smile 1. A Gallant Gay Lothario 2. I Tremble for the Consequence 3. Left Home on Sunday 4. Very Clever with His Pen PART TWO: The Unpleasantness at Sybil's Cave 5. A Person of Chastity 6. The Dead House 7. The Sable Divinity of Night 8. The Committee of Concerned Citizens 9. A Most Notorious Scoundrel 10. The Lost Hour 11. Crackpots and Gossipists 12. The Murder Thicket PART THREE: The Fatal Sabbath 13. A Somewhat Wasted Heart 14. A Wave of Crimson 15. A Series of Coincidences 16. A Mansion Built on Baby Skulls 17. The Vanishing Rowboat 18. At Variance with Truth PART FOUR: The Lady Sleeps 19. It May Not Be Improper to Record 20. The Imp of the Perverse EPILOGUE: One Last Wild Cry Acknowledgments Selected Bibliography Index |