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Joel Rose. The Blackest Bird
The. Blackest Bird
Contents
Maps
July 26, 1841, Midnight
Old Hays
Murder
Between Two Tides
The City Brain
In the Lair of the Green Turtle
News of Murder Breaks in the Public Prints
BODY FOUND FLOATING IN NORTH RIVER
MURDER!
BODY OF SEGAR STORE GIRL FOUND
A CALL TO ALL CITIZENS!
The Investigation Begins in Earnest
In a Clearing
THE LAST PLACE ON EARTH. WHERE MARY ROGERS WAS SEEN ALIVE
What Colt Did
MISSING FROM HIS PREMISES
Aftermath to Murder
Death of the Corkcutter Daniel Payne
BODY FOUND IN BOX
PREMEDITATED MURDER OR SELF DEFENSE?
TO THE WORLD
One Year Later
His Is the Rampant Temerity
Somewhere Deep in the Distance Stereotomy
The Sunday Sermon
A Man Condemned
The Bridge of Sighs
The Tombs
The Sister of the Pretty Hot Corn Girl
The Dark Deeds of Ruby Pearl
During His Time in the Tombs
HOW AS A SOCIET Y CAN WE ALLOW A MAN LIKE JOHN COLT TO ENDURE?
WHAT KIND OF DEMONSTRATION IS THIS?
The Ponce
Armagnac
WHAT’S GOING ON HERE?
Anderson’s Segar Shop
The Night Soil Cart
Snowden’s Ladies’ Companion
Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt Part One and Part Two but Not Yet Part Three
A Bitter Reunion
Marriage Beneath the Gibbet
The Marriage Banquet
Preparation for a Hanging
A Dagger in the Heart
The Politics of Fire in New York City
Into the Five Points
Conjecture on the Death of John C. Colt
DEAD FOR A DUCAT—DEAD!
WHO GAVE HIM THE KNIFE?
FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!
MR. COLT DEAD IN HIS CELL!
A Poem Before Dying
Colt’s Patent Chair
Grave Robbers
Following Poe
Ambush Below the Heights
The Band Undone
COLT UNDONE!
THE COLT QUESTION
A Visit Paid by Old Hays to the Colonel, Samuel Colt, at His Paterson Arms Manufacturing Company
The Wake and Funeral of Tommy Coleman
Aftermath to Obsequies
Sergeant McArdel
For His Soul
A Year and a Half Later
The Hunt for the Murderer of Mary Rogers Resumes
George Palmer Putnam
Stopping in at the Tobacconist’s Shop
Mary Devereaux
The New York Sun, the New York Moon, and All the Stars in the New York Sky
130 Greenwich Street
What Song the Syrens Sing
A Carman
The Brennan Farm
Mr. Poe, Do You Remember Me?
Poe, Poe, a Thousand Times Poe
Poe Makes Overtures to His Doomed Wife
Beneath a Bust of Pallas
Murder for Pleasure
If Not He, Who?
Grip the Raven and We’ll All Have Tea
The Black Bird
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING
THE RAVEN
Miss Lynch’s Conversaziones
Back in the Lair of the Green Turtle
Ten Months Later
My Dreams Are of the Unknown
Turtle Bay
The Dead Are but for the Moment … Motionless
The Bells
And the Fever Called Living Is Conquered at Last
BY LAST EVENING’S MAIL
Afterword
ELDORADO
Author’s NoteandAcknowledgments
About the Author. The Blackest Bird
Also by Joel Rose
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