DescriptionThe Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers: Sex and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York. By Amy Gilman Srebnick. NY et al: Oxford University Press, [1995.] Studies in the History of Sexuality series. First softcover printing. Trade softcover. pp. xxix, 218, illustrated. Notes, bibliography, index. Mary Rogers' murder, whose murdered body was found on the river shore at Hoboken, was the inspiration of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Mystery of Marie Roget." This academic work studies in the larger perspective of New York including the visualization of the crime. Several reproductions of book illustrations and prints. Trade softcover