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Nineteenth-century Boston is plagued by a series of grisly murders inspired by visions of Dante's Inferno. Four renowned scholars join together to stop the killer.
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Insects, Authors, Fiction, Appreciation, Art appreciation, Serial murder investigation, History, Fiction, mystery & detective, historical, Fiction, crime, Boston (mass.), fiction, Serial murders, fiction, Large type books, New York Times reviewedPeople
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)Places
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The Dante Club: A Novel
June 27, 2006, Ballantine Books, Ballantine
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034549038X 9780345490384
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The Dante Club
May 23, 2006, Simon & Schuster Audio
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074355373X 9780743553735
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The Dante Club: A Novel
February 10, 2004, Random House Trade Paperbacks
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0812971043 9780812971040
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"JOHN KURTZ, the chief of the Boston police, breathed in some of his heft for a better fit between the two chambermaids."
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"In 1865 Boston, the literary geniuses of the Dante Club - poets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell, along with publisher J. T. Fields - are finishing America's first translation of The Divine Comedy and preparing to unveil Dante's remarkable visions to the New World.
The powerful Boston Brahmins at Harvard College are fighting to keep Dante in obscurity, believing that the infiltration of foreign superstitions into American minds will prove as corrupting as the immigrants arriving at Boston Harbor.".
"The members of the Dante Club fight to keep a sacred literary cause alive, but their plans fall apart when a series of murders erupts through Boston and Cambridge. Only this small group of scholars realizes that the gruesome killings are modeled on the descriptions of Hell's punishments from Dante's Inferno. With the lives of the Boston elite and Dante's literary future in America at stake, the Dante Club members must find the killer before the authorities discover their secret.".
"Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and an outcast police officer named Nicholas Rey, the first black member of the Boston police department, must place their careers on the line to end the terror. Together, they discover that the source of the murders lies closer to home than they ever could have imagined."--BOOK JACKET.
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