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The Dante Club
by Matthew Pearl
I loved the premise of this book. A few murders take place in Boston shortly after the Civil War. These murders are replicas of scenes from Dante's Inferno. Longfellow is just in the process of translating Dante's work into English. There are a group of men who aid him in this endeavor -- Oliver Wendell Holmes and James Russell Lowell, thus we have "The Dante Club". When these men hear of the circumstances of the murders they recognize them right away and knowing that there are very few people who know about Dante, they set out to solve the crimes.
Warning - descriptions of the murder scenes are very graphic and are reviewed throughout the book.
Warning - descriptions of the murder scenes are very graphic and are reviewed throughout the book.