The Dante Club refers to a group of Harvard Professors - Henry W Longfellow, Dr. Oliver W Holmes and James Russell Lowell who meet regularly to complete America's first translation of Dante's Divine Comedy. Their attempts to keep their work quiet until finished changes when a series of gruesome murders in 1865 Boston/Cambridge convinces them that someone is molding the killings after Dante's masterpiece. This literary group then becomes investigators because of their knowledge of the literary community and the book's details. It is a bit of a stretch to imagine these figures as detectives but Pearl pulls it off with a combination of great storytelling and beautifully written prose. It's obvious that he loves the poets that he has as characters in the book. The story is well written, very entertaining and will keep you on end until all is revealed.
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