num_pages: 380
description: Boston, 1865. A series of murders, all of them inspired by scenes in Dante’s Inferno. Only an elite group of America’s first Dante scholars—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and J. T. Fields—can solve the mystery. With the police baffled, more lives endangered, and Dante’s literary future at stake, the Dante Club must shed its sheltered literary existence and find the killer.
language: English
title: The Dante Club
titlecomplete: The Dante Club
characters: James Thomas Fields, Nicholas Rey, George Washington Greene, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
genres: Historical Mystery, Historical, Books About Books, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 40800
places: Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts
series: The Dante Club 
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award
publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks