The Dante Club

Historical Mystery

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The Dante Club is a historical murder mystery by Matthew Pearl about a group of scholars in 1865 Boston investigating killings modelled on the punishments in Dante’s Inferno, ideal for readers who enjoy literary puzzles, scholarly investigations and richly detailed historical mysteries.

Synopsis
Boston, 1865.

A small group of elite scholars prepare to introduce Dante’s vision of hell to America.

Meanwhile a ruthless killer plots in secret to do the same.

When a series of murders erupts through Boston and Cambridge, only this small group are able to decipher the clues – they soon realise the gruesome killings are symbols modeled on the descriptions of Hell's punishments from Dante's Inferno.

With the police baffled, lives endangered and Dante's literary future at stake, the Dante Club must shed its sheltered literary existence and find a way to stop the killer.

Perfect for readers who like...

Historical fiction with extensive period detail.
Literary puzzles, clues and scholarly investigation.
Ensemble casts caught up in a serial-killer investigation.

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Themes and story elements

Murder and punishment
Literary obsession
Scholarly investigation
Intellectual rivalry
Serial murder
Dante's Inferno

With intricate plots, classical themes, and erudite characters...what's not to love?
Dan Brown, author of Inferno and The Da Vinci Code

About Matthew Pearl

Matthew Pearl is the internationally bestselling author of The Dante Club, published in more than thirty languages and forty countries. His other books include The Poe Shadow and The Last Dickens. Pearl is a graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School and has taught literature at Harvard and at Emerson College. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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