on abortion theory, 253–54, 260
coverage of Jewett’s murder, 117–21
and crime reporting, 115–16, 120–21
journalistic hoaxes, 26, 305–6
and law enforcement, 108–9
and “Marie Rogêt” mystery, 266–67, 270, 273, 279
on Merritt, 211
and Payne, 106–7, 205–6
restraint requested from, 195, 199
on Rogers’s allure, 19
role of, 86, 115–16
and rumors, 181–82
skirmishing among, 155
on suspects, 161–63, 174
theories of, 237, 254–55
yellow journalism, 5, 110–11, 120–21
prostitution, 66–67
P. T. Barnum’s American Museum, 14–15
publications of Poe. See also specific titles
essays, 328
journal, 130, 131, 223, 244, 263, 264, 291, 298, 299, 324–25
literary criticism, 36–37, 80, 128, 132–33
and Maria Clemm, 74
novellas, 128
poetry, 50, 53–54, 57–58, 73, 311–13
posthumous two-volume edition, 336–37
short stories, 74–75, 128–29, 133–41, 219, 299–300, 309–10, 315
in youth, 45
Purdy, Elijah, 102, 103, 152
“Purloined Letter, The” (Poe), 309–10, 315, 351
Putnam, George, 330
Pym, A. G. (pseudonym), 125
ratiocination
and chess-playing automaton, 69–73
in “Marie Rogêt” mystery, 7, 9, 225–26, 284–87, 353
in “Purloined Letter, The,” 310
“Raven, The” (Poe), 311–13, 315, 323
Raven and Other Poems, The (Poe), 311–13
reforms resulting from Rogers’s murder, 4–5, 341–43, 347
Restell (Ann Trow Lohman), 250–53, 262, 298, 343–45, 346–47
Richmond, Annie, 331–32
Richmond, Virginia, 76–77, 79, 83, 332
Roberts, George, 228–29
Robinson, Richard, 117, 119, 148
Rogers, Daniel, 21–22
Rogers, Mary Cecilia
allure of, 23–24
at Anderson’s Tobacco Emporium, 3–4, 17–19
attention received by, 27–28, 29–30
background, 17, 20
birth, 22
body of, 90–91 (see also murder investigation)
celebrity of, 18–19, 341
demeanor of, 19–20, 144
depicted in Ingraham’s Beautiful Cigar Girl, 308–9
depicted in “Marie Rogêt,” 232–33, 273–75, 288 (see also “Mystery of Marie Rogêt, The”)
disappearance of (1838), 24–27, 60, 273, 275–78, 360, 364
disappearance of (1841), 59–68 (see also murder investigation)
funeral, 186, 189
and Poe, 38, 58
poetry dedicated to, 17, 18, 24, 32, 347
prose dedicated to, 32, 347
reports of her being alive, 181 (see also survival of Rogers)
social status of, 278
suitors of, 26–27, 29–32, 61, 161, 273, 274, 275–78
Rogers, Phoebe
background, 20–23
and Crommelin, 30, 191
at the Dead House, 101
on disappearance of Mary (1838), 24–25
on disappearance of Mary (1841), 63, 64, 65, 68, 256–57
identification of body, 102, 105–6
identification of clothing, 189–90
in “Marie Rogêt” mystery, 233
on Mary’s employment, 17
and Payne, 31–32, 60–61, 107, 258, 358–59
response to discovery of body, 99, 100, 186, 187–88, 256–67
Royster, Sarah Elmira, 43–44, 47, 50, 332–33
rumors, 110, 181–82, 191–92, 205–6
sailor’s knot in bonnet, 96, 158, 277, 278
Sands, Gulielma, 144
Saturday Evening Post, 225
Saturday Museum, 298
Scott, Winfield, 15
self-immolation, 323
sensationalism, 5, 110–11, 120–21
Seward, William, 155–56, 182, 212, 356
Shakespeare Tavern, 38
Sharp, Solomon P., 79
Shew, Marie, 331
Simms, William Gilmore, 80, 224, 226
Sins of New York (Every), 345
Smith, Matthew Hale, 14, 342
Snodgrass, Joseph Evans
and death of Poe, 334
on funeral for Poe, 335
and “Marie Rogêt” mystery, 3–4, 6–7, 8, 226, 228–29
Snowden, William, 229–30, 243–44, 289, 292, 294
“Solace Tobacco,” 15
Southern Literary Messenger
employment of Poe, 70, 76, 77
fiction of Poe in, 80, 124
literary criticism of Poe in, 36, 80, 263
Poe’s departure from, 82–83, 126
Spencer (naval officer), 356–57
Stanard, Jane, 43, 313
Stoneall, James, 152, 229
strangulation of Rogers, 94, 95, 260–61, 358–59, 365
Stylus, The
and alcoholism of Poe, 264, 298, 299
Poe’s goal of publishing, 223, 244, 263, 291
prospectus, 298
suicide hypothesis, 146–47
Sunday Morning Atlas, 32
Sunday News, 27
Sunday Visiter, 74
survival of Rogers
as depicted in “Marie Rogêt,” 239, 240–41
New York Planet on, 181
Tattler on, 184–87, 190, 211, 213
“Swarthy Man”
and abortion theory, 254, 365
as depicted in “Marie Rogêt,” 277, 354
Loss on, 209, 212
press on, 214–15
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 350
Sybil’s Cave, 88, 144, 202
Tale of a Physician (Davis), 348–49, 365–66
Tales (Poe), 315–16, 321, 337, 345
Tales of the Folio Club (Poe), 124
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (Poe), 129, 219
Tamerlane and Other Poems (Poe), 50
Tattler
and Crommelin, 189–90
as depicted in “Marie Rogêt,” 239, 240
editor (see Day, Benjamin)
and Hayes’s defense of family, 188–89
on Payne’s suicide, 211–12
on progress of investigation, 108
on survival of Rogers, 184–87, 190, 211, 213
on suspects, 161–63
Taylor (justice of the peace)
and Morse, 166, 168, 170, 173–78
and Padley, 183
and Payne’s suicide, 205
“Tell-Tale Heart, The” (Poe), 315
themes in Poe’s writing, 58
Thomas, Frederick, 222, 264, 312
Times and Commercial Intelligencer, 25, 26–27, 105–6, 276
Times and Evening Star, 108
Townsend, Rosina, 117, 118, 119–20
Transcript, 155, 160–61
“Turk, The,” 69–73, 224–25, 293–94
U.S. Army, 49–52
Van Buren, Martin, 115
Vidocq (French detective), 140
Walker, William, 96
Wall, Adam, 200–201, 213
Wallace, William Ross, 310–11
Walling, George, 38, 104
Warren, Robert Penn, 80
Webb, James Watson, 113–14, 118, 152, 255
Webster, Daniel, 116
Weeks, Levi, 144
Whip, 16
White, Thomas Willis, 76, 77, 78, 79, 82–83, 124, 129
Whitman, Sarah Helen, 331, 337, 357
wife of Poe. See Poe, Virginia Clemm
Wilde, Oscar, 350
Wiley & Putnam, 315, 324
Willis, Nathaniel, 307, 313, 329, 336
women in Poe’s life, 7
–8, 313–14, 331 (see also Poe, Virginia Clemm)
Woodberry, George, 350
Woodhull, Caleb, 152
Wyatt, Thomas, 125–26
yellow journalism, 5, 110–11, 120–21
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Daniel Stashower is the author of the highly acclaimed biography of Arthur Conan Doyle Teller of Tales (1999), which won the Edgar Award for Best Biographical Work. A winner of the Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellowship in Detective and Crime Fiction writing, Stashower is also the author of several mystery novels. He lives with his family in Bethesda, Maryland.
Visit the author’s website at www.stashower.com.
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