The Blackest Bird

Blurb

"The Blackest Bird" is a novel about one of the most tantalizing unsolved murders in New York City history: the 1841 killing of Mary Rogers, a tobacco shopgirl whose clientele included authors such as James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe. The detective on the case quickly identified Poe as a suspect, based on Poe's story-writing.