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The Dante chamber / Matthew Pearl.
Van Pelt Library PS3616.E25 D34 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pearl, Matthew, author.
- Series:
- Pearl, Matthew. Dante Club ; 2.
- Dante Club ; 2.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
- Authors, English.
- London (England)--History--19th century--Fiction.
- London (England).
- England--London.
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Influence--Fiction.
- Dante Alighieri.
- Murder--England--London--Investigation--Fiction.
- Murder.
- Authors, English--19th century--Fiction.
- FICTION / Literary.
- FICTION / Historical.
- FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical.
- English authors--19th century--Fiction.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Murder--Investigation.
- Local Subjects:
- FICTION / Literary.
- FICTION / Historical.
- FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical.
- Genre:
- Mystery fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Cryptologic fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 357 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- "The year is 1870. Five years after a series of Dante-inspired killings disrupted Boston, a man is found murdered in the public gardens of London with an enormous stone around his neck etched with a verse from the Divine Comedy. When more mysterious murders erupt across the city, all in the style of the punishments Dante memorialized in Purgatory, poet Christina Rossetti fears her brother, the Dante-obsessed artist and writer Gabriel Rossetti, will be the next victim. Christina enlists poets Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson, and famous scholar Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, to assist in deciphering the literary clues. Together these unlikely investigators rush to unravel the secrets of Dante's verses in order to find Gabriel and stop the killings. Racing between the shimmering mansions of the elite and the dark corners of London's underworld, they descend further and further into the mystery. But when the true inspiration behind the gruesome murders is finally revealed, Christina realizes that the perpetrator has even bigger and more horrific plans than she had initially thought"-- Provided by publisher.
- 1870. Five years ago a series of Dante-inspired killings disrupted Boston. Now a man is found murdered in the public gardens of London-- with an enormous stone around his neck etched with a verse from the Divine Comedy. More mysterious murders erupt across the city, all in the style of the punishments Dante memorialized in Purgatory. Christina Rossetti fears her brother, the Dante-obsessed artist and writer Gabriel Rossetti, will be the next victim. She enlists Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, and Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes to assist in deciphering the literary clues.
- Notes:
- Sequel to: The Dante club. New York : Random House, c2003.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Pearl, Matthew. Dante chamber.
- ISBN:
- 9781594204937
- 1594204934
- OCLC:
- 1007552807
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