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Mary Rogers - Marie Roget

Text: THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET by Poe

Murder Victim MARY ROGERS

In July 1841, a young woman, Mary Cecilia Rogers, the "Beautiful Cigar Girl" who had tended the counter at John Anderson's popular cigar store, mysteriously disappeared from the boardinghouse she ran with her elderly mother in New York City. A few days later, her body was found floating in the shallow waters of the Hudson River near the Hoboken, New Jersey shore. While her murder was never solved, her death was probably the result of an illegal abortion gone fatally wrong.

Poe's MARIE ROGET

Edgar Allan Poe, the creator of the modern detective story ("Murders in the Rue Morgue"), took the facts of the infamous New York murder case and placed them into the fictional Parisian world of his celebrated detective hero, C. Auguste Dupin. In "The Mystery of Marie Roget", Poe uses the narrative of a murder investigation to further demonstrate the power of rational analysis and scientific observation. In doing so, Poe invented yet another literary form: the nonfiction fiction.

Text: THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET by Poe

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