Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
7.7
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
7064
Points per Word
0.000142
Page Count
80
Points per Page
0.0125
Series
Treasury of Victorian Murder
Description
Comic art is used to examine who killed Mary Rogers, a young nineteenth-century New York woman rumored to have died of a botched abortion attempt. A discussion of Edgar Allan Poe's story based on the case, THE MYSTERY OF MARY ROGET, is included.