When beauty goes missing, people notice. In the early 1840s, Mary Rogers worked as a cigar girl. Her beauty brought customers in, making this the most popular cigar shop in NYC. But when she went missing... and a body turned up a few days later... speculation ran wild about who killed this beautiful cigar girl. Join us as we add another entry.

Stashower, D. (2007). The beautiful cigar girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the invention of murder. Berkley Books.
Welcome! NYS Historic Newspapers. (n.d.). Retrieved January 22, 2022, from https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/ 

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