{"id":253,"date":"2007-08-19T22:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-19T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=253"},"modified":"2007-08-19T22:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-19T22:14:00","slug":"beautiful-cigar-girl-mary-rogers-edgar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2007\/08\/beautiful-cigar-girl-mary-rogers-edgar.html","title":{"rendered":"The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder by Daniel Stashower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000N3T40G\/tradgirl\" target=\"'new'\">The Beautiful Cigar Girl<\/a> was given to me to read by a friend, but I hadn&#8217;t gotten around to it when I signed up for a class on Creative Fiction and found it on the reading list.  I moved it up to the top of the pile and I&#8217;m glad I did.  It&#8217;s an interesting read.  The author had a great concept and executed it well.<\/p>\n<p>The book focuses on Edgar Allen Poe&#8217;s connection to the real life murder of Mary Rogers which he eventually fictionalized as &#8220;The Murder of Marie Roget.&#8221;  The book was entertaining throughout and I learned a lot about Poe, Mary Rogers&#8217; murder, and the general state of New York City at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beautiful Cigar Girl was given to me to read by a friend, but I hadn&#8217;t gotten around to it when I signed up for a class on Creative Fiction and found it on the reading list. I moved it up to the top of the pile and I&#8217;m glad I did. It&#8217;s an interesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biosauto-biosmemoirs","category-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}