Welcome back to Part 3 of the Tragic Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe.

Today we continue with Edgar living in Philadelphia with Virginia, his teenage cousin wife, and his Aunt Maria, during his most prolific time, when he became obsessed with true crime and began writing the world's first detective stories, Edgar becoming obsessed with the real-life murder of the Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rodgers.

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REFERENCES:

A Mystery of Mysteries by Mark Dawidziak

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

Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy by Jeffrey Meyers

Edgar A. Poe: A Biography by Kenneth Silverman

In Search of Edgar Allan Poe documentary written and directed by Andrew D. Kaplan

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