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One of the author's five favorite historical murder mysteries, as shared with the Telegraph:
The poets Longfellow, Lowell and Holmes turn detective in Matthew Pearl’s The Dante Club (2003), in which a serial killer in 19th-century Boston dispatches his victims in the manner of Dante’s infernal punishments. It’s the ideal combination of erudite and gruesome.Read about the other entries on the list.
--Marshal Zeringue