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Morpheus_Noctifer · 08-02-2004, 11:06 PM

I'm almost finished with The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl. This amazingly fast-paced, well-written book is set in Boston 1865 where a series of murders based on Dante's Inferno grip the city and only Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, J.T. Fields, and James Russell Lowell (who are working on the first American-made translation of the Commedia) can solve them. It's a pretty expensive paperback ($13.95!), but then again, I date myself by saying that I can remember when paperbacks were under $5.

I highly recommend this book to mystery fans, Dante fans, or fans of a good story.

08-02-2004, 11:06 PM	#45
Morpheus_Noctifer Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Baton Rouge, LA Posts: 121	I'm almost finished with The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl. This amazingly fast-paced, well-written book is set in Boston 1865 where a series of murders based on Dante's Inferno grip the city and only Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, J.T. Fields, and James Russell Lowell (who are working on the first American-made translation of the Commedia) can solve them. It's a pretty expensive paperback ($13.95!), but then again, I date myself by saying that I can remember when paperbacks were under $5. I highly recommend this book to mystery fans, Dante fans, or fans of a good story.