This was a slog for me. I went into it hoping for something like The Devil in the White City, which it wasn't. It juxtaposes the murder of Mary Rogers with the life of Poe, who eventually wrote a story based on the crime. I felt like the book was a series of quotes from old timey newspapers and the writings of Poe with little new information or investigation presented if any. I read to the end hoping for a resolution and got none.