Publisher's Synopsis
The Mystery of Marie Roget (1842) is Edgar Allan Poe's second story featuring his philosophic amateur detective the Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin. This intellectual super-sleuth made his first appearance the year before in The Murders in the Rue Morgue and appeared for the last time in Poe's 1844 story, The Purloined Letter. Marie Roget is based on a real-life crime that took place in New York City in 1841 when the corpse of a young girl called Mary Rogers was found floating in the Hudson River. The original murder was never really solved - which is perhaps why Poe leaves his story technically 'unfinished'.
