The Dante Club
by Matthew Pearl
Boston 1865. A series of murders, all of them inspired by scenes in Dante’s
Inferno. Only an elite group of America’s first Dante scholars – Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and J. T.
Fields – can solve the mystery. With the police baffled, more lives
endangered, and Dante’s literary futures at stake, the Dante Club must shed
its sheltered literary existence and find the killer. Illustrated frontis.
Reader’s guide at end of book.
Random House Trade Paperbacks, New York, 2004, 323 pages, 5 ¾” x 8 ½”, trade
paperback, illustrated.
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