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  • Published: 31 December 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448129423
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 384

The Dante Club

Historical Mystery




A gripping thriller set in Boston, from the writer whose legion of fans include Dan Brown and Jed Rubenfeld

Before Inferno came The Dante Club…the captivating thriller from the writer whose fans include Dan Brown, Jed Rubenfeld, Kate Mosse and Tess Gerritsen

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.

‘An immensely gifted author’ Dan Brown, bestselling author of Inferno and The Da Vinci Code

  • Published: 31 December 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448129423
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 384

About the author

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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Praise for The Dante Club

Audacious and captivating...truly admirable

Esquire

Ingenious

New Yorker

The momentum of his plot is irresistible...a most inventive page-turner

Stephanie Merritt, Observer

There are some great twists in the plot and the chase is genuinely thrilling...an unusually arresting piece of crime fiction

Toby Clements, Daily Telegraph

With intricate plots, classical themes, and erudite characters...what's not to love?

Dan Brown, author of Inferno and The Da Vinci Code