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The Mystery of Marie Rogers in Lower Manhattan
A foggy Nassau Street scene recalls Marie Roget, the Poe muse, and the 1840s murder that inspired Dupin. The piece links her fate to Captain Kidd’s former home near Cable Restaurant, amid Wall Street’s bustle and fading Dutch charm.
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Captain Kidd
Marie Roget
Edgar Allan Poe
Marie Roger
Marie Cecelia Rogers
Poe
Marie Rogers
Broadway
Manhattan
John Anderson
Washington Irving
James Fenimore Coedper
Anderson
Weehawken
Payne
Dupin
Ounce Wue
Yesteryear
Nassau Street
Lower Manhattan
Wall Street
New York
Marie
Daniel Payne
Alfred Cromeline
Saint-Eustache
Beauvais
Roger
William Kidd
Sarah Oort
Lower Broadway
Harlem
Lord Bellomont
England
Kidd
London
King Wiliam
Madagascar
Long Island Sound
Gardiner’s Island
Jersey
Connecticut
Clarence Mackay
Execution Dock
Lawless
Eadoenture