The death of Mary Rogers, a twenty-year-old cigar girl, was discovered floating in the Hudson on July 28, 1841, and New York's uncontrolled police force was unable to solve the murder. A year later, in "The Mystery of Marie Rogot," a struggling writer named Edgar Allan Poe decided to take up the case and dispatched his imaginary investigator, C. Auguste Dupin, to investigate the mysterious murder of Mary Rogers.
“I have not only labored solely for the benefit of others (receiving for myself a miserable pittance), but have been forced to model my thoughts at the will of men whose imbecility was evident to all but themselves" — Edgar Allan Poe
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