6 | The Mystery of Mary Rogers
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What do we really know about the poignant death of the girl who inspired one of Edgar Allan Poe’s novels, The Mystery of Marie Roget? Join me in New York...
show more“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” – Poe’s ‘The Raven’
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Twitter: @PrashsMurderMap
Email: prashsmurdermap@gmail.com
Credits:
Research, writing, original Mary Rogers poem(“The Beautiful Cigar Girl”), narration and audio arrangement by Prash
Character Voices: Ben(Daniel Payne, LaForge), Steve (Edgar Allan Poe)
Sources:
“Edgar Allen Poe: Was Mary Rogers his muse or his victim?”, 8 October 2015
https://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena-history-famous-people/edgar-allan-poe-was-mary-rogers-his-muse-or-his-murder-020557
Duke, Thomas; “The Mysterious Murder of Cigar Girl Mary Rogers”, 1910, Celebrated Criminal Cases of America Part III Cases East of the Pacific Coast
http://www.historicalcrimedetective.com/ccca/the-mysterious-murder-of-cigar-girl-mary-rogers-1841/
Geary, Rick; “A Treasury of Victorian Murder Compendium II”, 2015, NBM Publishing Inc. New York
Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, “The Mystery of Marie Roget,” 1978
https://www.eapoe.org/works/mabbott/tom3t001.htm
“Murder of Mary C. Rogers”, New York Tribune 12 August 1841, https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19483347/murder_of_mary_c_rogers/
Nickell, Joe; “Historical Whodunnit – Spiritualists, Poe, and the real Marie Roget”, Skeptical Inquirer July/August 2010
Poe, Edgar Allen; “The Mystery of Marie Roget”, 1842 (Audible version)
Semtner, Chris; The Poe Blog, November 16 2016
http://www.thepoeblog.org/poe-museum-announces-loser-of-its-latest-poll/
Stashower, Daniel; “The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allen Poe, and the Invention of Murder,” 2006, Dutton Books
Steiner, Henry John; “The Ghosts and Mr Anderson,” October 15 2014, Headless Horseman Blog
http://headlesshorsemanblog.com/ghosts-edgar-allen-poe-john-anderson/
Various articles from archived New York newspapers
https://stupit.github.io/text/Mystery_of_Mary_Rogers/The_Mystery_of_Mary_Rogers_in_newspapers.htm#1837-09-18
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