The first class at M.I.T. The last hope for a city in peril.  The acclaimed author of The Dante Club reinvigorates the historical thriller. Matthew Pearl's spellbinding new novel transports readers to tumultuous nineteenth-century Bo...

The Dante Club includes such scholars and intellectual luminaries of mid-19th-century Boston as Longfellow, Holmes, and Lowell. Their attempt to introduce Dante’s NE COMEDY to the Harvard curriculum leads to a series of murders ...

In 1849 Baltimore, following the death of Edgar Allan Poe, Quentin Clark, a young city dweller fiercely loyal to his favorite author, discovers that Poe’s final days had been marked by a series of bizarre, unanswered questions a...