by Matthew Pearl · labutxaca · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788492549979
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«El club Dante» is the historical mystery novel by Matthew Pearl, published by labutxaca in paperback (528 pages, in Catalan).
Boston, 1865. A killer imitates the torments of Dante's Inferno and murders prominent figures. While Nicholas Rey, the first Black police agent in Boston, leads the official investigation, the members of the Dante Club —Harvard intellectuals preparing the first American translation of the Divine Comedy— pursue their own inquiries.
It was originally published in English as The Dante Club (2003) and is the first installment of the eponymous series; it was nominated for the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award in 2004.
For readers of historical intrigue and literary mysteries, with a plot that combines reality and fiction; it has been compared to The Name of the Rose.
