Poe, Edgar Allen / 2008-06-06 00:00:00
1850
THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET
A Sequel to "The Murder in the Rue Morgue"
by Edgar Allan Poe
INTRODUCTION
There are ideal series of events which run parallel with the real
ones. They rarely coincide. Men and circumstances generally modify the
ideal train of events, so that it seems imperfect, and its
consequences are equally imperfect. Thus with the Reformation; instead
of Protestantism came Lutheranism.
Novalis. Moral Ansichten.
Upon the original publication of "Marie Roget," the footnotes now
appended were considered unnecessary; but the lapse of several years
since the tragedy upon which the tale is based, renders it expedient
to give them, and also to say a few words in explanation of the
general design. A young girl, Mary Cecilia Rogers, was murdered in the
vicinity of New York; and although her death occasioned an intense and
long-enduring excitement, the mystery attending it had remained
unsolved at the period when the present paper was written and
published (November, 1842).
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