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The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder

Description

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 Rogt."

Reviews

Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2010-09-04
Summary: "A Disjointed Book"

This book is an odd mixed bag: The sections dealing strictly with the Rogers murder are informative and well-done. However, the intersecting Poe biography is full of blatant factual errors and, like so much writing about Poe, is tiresomely tabloid-like in its approach. Also, the effort to juxtapose Poe's life with Rogers' simply doesn't work. The effect or these dual "plotlines" is jarring, and makes it difficult to fully get into either of their stories.

In short, it's worthwhile to read this book if you're interested in true crime in general or the Rogers case in particular. If you want to learn about Poe, however, you should look elsewhere.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-06-14
Summary: "The Beautiful Cigar Girl"

On Wednesday, July 28, 1841, the disfigured corpse of 21-year-old Mary Rogers was discovered floating in the Hudson River and brought ashore. She had been missing since Sunday morning, when she had set out, she said at the time, to visit her aunt, Mrs. Downing, where she would there accompany the family to church. Her plan was to return home, to her mother's boardinghouse, in the early evening of the same day. Not only had she not reached the Downings, but her aunt had had no knowledge of Mary's intended visit.

Mary Rogers was of some celebrity in New York City for her alluring beauty, often discussed by the public when she had worked at a popular cigar and tobacco shop some years prior to her death. At the time of her disappearance there was animosity between her two principle suitors, the apparent fiancé and his bitter rival, each of whom searched for her, one of whom arrived, apparently by chance, at the shoreline after her recovery and who identified the body, the other of whom later committed suicide, overwhelmed, it was said, by grief.

Much of this book is a narrative of the events surrounding Mary Rogers' life and the investigation of her death, including the involvement of the New York press in reporting, speculating, misreporting, and commenting on this investigation. The other facet of the book concerns Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). In mid 1842, Poe, in financial straits, sold a story to the Ladies' Companion based upon the still unsolved death of Mary Rogers, transferring the events to Paris, and naming the tale "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt". It was the second fictional appearance of Poe's eccentric genius and ratiocinator, C. Auguste Dupin, the undisputed predecessor and prototype of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. This book, The Beautiful Cigar Girl, besides giving an extensive look at Poe's retelling of the mystery of Mary Rogers, contains also what amounts to an abbreviated biography of Poe.

For the works of Edgar Allan Poe see the Library of America editions:
Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales
Edgar Allan Poe : Essays and Reviews

Note: As for the book by Amy Gilman Srebnick on the Mary Rogers' case, The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers: Sex and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York, her book has a completely different intention, a deep infection by French philosophical thought, and a strong political agenda. Simply read her introduction for proof.

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-05-24
Summary: "Poe, Manhattan police work, crimes tried in the press....What's not to like?"

Did you wonder at the title of this book? Did Poe make his way into it just to sell more copies? And what is "the invention of murder"? I wondered, too, and the answer to the second question is "no". While I remain puzzled by "the invention of murder", certainly Poe belongs in the title. Stashower (evidenced by the 5-page bibliography) does a masterful job of tying the famous poet, author, and inventor of C. Auguste Dupin to a real-life 1841 murder case in Manhattan. Author provides deep background on several decades of the mid-19th century, especially the NYC press. He focuses on James Gordon Bennett's "Herald"; many other newspapers and magazines are brought into this story. Why? Because there was never a trial in the murder case, and published accounts were Stashower's primary sources. However, the journalism background pales against the background provided about Edgar Allan Poe. I thought I knew a bit about Poe, having read his ouevre and visited Mrs. Clemm's house and the Poe Museum and grave in Baltimore. Possibly Poe scholars will not agree, but I found much of the detail new. Poe wrote a contemporary account of the murder entitled "The Mystery of Marie Roget", set in Paris rather than in New York, repeating the ratiocination and "Calculus of Probabilities" techniques he employed with C. Auguste Dupin in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (and later in "The Purloined Letter").

Stashower builds his own suspense with parallel stories (much as Larson did in "The Devil in the White City" for Chicago, the grave robbers, and the World's Fair). I found the author's technique to be nearly perfect, not confusing, and extremely enlightening as to the crime culture of the 1840s, the prime players in that era's law enforcement and journalism, and the background of victim Mary Cecilia Rogers... Will the police solve this murder?... Will Poe beat them to it with his 20,000-word, 3-part magazine series about the crime (thinly disguised in "The Mystery of Marie Roget")?... Can we follow Poe's "Rue Morgue" detective, Dupin, sitting in his armchair, trying to outguess the police?... Will Poe ever afford his own literary magazine? Poe's treatment of this crime was a precursor to the methods used by Arthur Conan Doyle and by Truman Capote. [Note: Poe's "The Mystery of Marie Roget" does not appear in this volume.]

I'm usually a generous star-giver in my reviews, but I've lowered my rating from 5 to 4 for this book, despite the entertainment and educational value. There are numerous editorial errors and repetition (hard to say if it's the fault of the writer or an editor at Dutton), and to an incomplete index. Yes, it's a 10-page index, but some items I tried to use omitted more than one page reference, and some New York characters are not listed. A few narrative glitches stood out but come too close to spoilers to mention here. One cannot, however, fault Stashower's deep research and dedication to the details and era of this murder case and to portraying Poe as a complex human being. I found myself thinking about the crime and the characters once away from the book all together. Also, I appreciated the design of the book, period jacket, deckle edges, and bringing 1800s engravings to chapter headings.

Stashower wrote the award-winning biography of Arthur Conan Doyle (1999); he is probably the best contemporary author for this story. As he himself said of Poe, Stashower showed a "masterful grasp of the complexities of the case" and "extraordinary flashes of inspiration set off by an equal measure of guile". You will not be disappointed if you like detailed, well-written historical narratives. There is little conjecture here, but what does exist makes logical sense up to (as Poe said) "There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told."

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-03-07
Summary: "Poe, Dupin, and the Mary Rogers case"

When I read this book a couple years ago, I thought it was very good. Now, upon further consideration, I think it's really quite exceptional! In the well-researched "The Beautiful Cigar Girl," author Daniel Stashower relates the story of the highly-publicized 1841 murder of Mary Rogers of New York City, and also repeats the biography of Edgar Allan Poe in alternating chapters. In 1842, Poe would fictionalize the real-life Mary Rogers murder case as "The Mystery of Marie Roget" (in fictionalizing it, he basically just "Frenchified" it), and would dare to offer his solution to the case through the words of the fictional C. Auguste Dupin, the hero of Poe's earlier "Murders on the Rue Morgue" and literature's first "detective." Stashower's technique of telling a historical crime story simultaneously with the story of a creator (in this case, Poe) is similar to the technique employed by Erik Larson in the latter's "Devil in the White City" and "Thunderstruck." It's a technique that works well here, as the reader is treated to details of how Poe came to write "Marie Roget," and how he altered the final installment of his story as more real-life clues about the Mary Rogers case came to light. Interesting stuff if you're a fan of true crime or Poe or both! Personally, I can't get enough of the fictional detective Dupin, and once you've read Poe's three stories featuring him you're left only with a handful of Dupin pastiches by other authors. (Of these, you may want to find a used copy of Michael Harrison's "The Exploits of the Chevalier Dupin." But be forewarned: less than 2,000 copies were printed and I'm not surrendering mine!)

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2009-11-15
Summary: "Good biography of Poe"

This is an excellent biography of Edgar Poe, well mixed with his interest in the murder of Mary Rogers. I enjoyed learning that Poe was not a hopeless alcoholic that only wrote well when he was drunk.(This being what many schools teach.) I'd recommend it to anyone who likes biography and a good murder mystery also.