Matthew Pearl

Boston, 1865.A small group of elite scholars prepare to introduce Dantes vision of hell to America.Meanwhile a ruthless killer plots in secret to do the same.When a series of murders erupts through Boston and Cambridge, only this small group are able to decipher the clues they soon realise the gruesome killings are symbols modeled on the descriptions of Hell''s punishments from Dante''s Inferno.With the police baffled, lives endangered and Dante''s literary future at stake, the Dante Club must shed its sheltered literary existence and find a way to stop the killer.

En el convulso y puritano Boston de 1865 los miembros del club Dante —poetas y profesores de Harvard dirigidos por Henry Wadsworth— da los toques finales a la primera traducción norteamericana de La

Boston, 1865. Importantes personalidades están siendo brutalmente asesinadas por un criminal que se inspira en los tormentos del Infierno de Dante. Sólo los miembros del club Dante pueden anticiparse al asesino e identificarlo. Nicholas Rey, el primer policia negro del departamento de Boston, dirigira la investigacion.

Baltimore, 1849. The body of Edgar Allan Poe has been buried in an unmarked grave. The public, the press, even Poe''s family and friends accept the conclusion that Poe was a second-rate writer who died a drunkard. But none of this deters a young Baltimore lawyer named Quentin Clark, an ardent admirer who risks his own career and reputation in a passionate crusade to salvage Poe''s. THE POE SHADOW is an ingeniously plotted tale of suspense which opens a new window on the truth behind Poe''s demise.

From the "New York Times" bestselling author of the "Dante Club," the story of an epic literary heist by a forgotten class of consummate criminals book a-neer (b k k -n r ), "n." a literary pirate; an individual capable of doing all that must be done in the universe of books that publishers, authors, and readers must not have a part in London, 1890 Pen Davenport is the most infamous bookaneer in Europe. A master of disguise, he makes his living stalking harbors, coffeehouses, and print shops for the latest manuscript to steal. But this golden age of publishing is on the verge of collapse. For a hundred years, loose copyright laws and a hungry reading public created a unique opportunity: books could easily be published abroad without an author s permission. Authors gained fame but suffered financially Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, to name a few but publishers reaped enormous profits while readers bought books inexpensively. Yet on the eve of the twentieth century, a new international treaty is signed to grind this literary underground to a sharp halt. The bookaneers are on the verge of extinction. From the "New York Times" bestselling author of"The Dante Club," Matthew Pearl, "The Last Bookaneer"is the astonishing story of these literary thieves epic final heist. On the island of Samoa, a dying Robert Louis Stevenson labors over a new novel. The thought of one last book from the great author fires the imaginations of the bookaneers, and soon Davenport sets out for the South Pacific accompanied by his assistant Fergins. But Davenport is hardly the only bookaneer with a mind to pirate Stevenson s last novel. His longtime adversary, the monstrous Belial, appears on the island, and soon Davenport, Fergins, and Belial find themselves embroiled in a conflict larger, perhaps, than literature itself. In "The Last Bookanee"r, Pearl crafts a finely wrought tale about a showdown between brilliant men in the last great act of their professions. It is nothing short of a page-turning journey to the heart of a lost era. Praise for "The Last Bookaneer" Matthew Pearl has a particular specialty: finding an obscure corner of 19th-century history and spinning from it literary fiction that is thought-provoking, enlightening, smoothly written and a ripping good story to boot. "The Seattle Times""

Matthew Pearl is the new shining star of literary fiction - an immensely gifted author'Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code

The news of the untimely death of Charles Dickens reaches the office of his publisher. James Osgood, a junior partner there, had been expecting the latest instalment of Dickens' final work, to arrive shortly. Suspicious of unscrupulous New York publishers' intent on stealing Dickens' novel, Osgood sends his trusted clerk to await its arrival.

Matthew Pearl is the internationally bestselling author of The Dante Club, published in more than thirty languages and forty countries, andof The Poe Shadow and, most recently, The Last Dickens. Pearl is a graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School and has taughtliterature at Harvard and at Emerson College. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Quentin Clark, an ardent admirer of Edgar Allan Poes work, puts his own career and reputation at risk in a passionate crusade to salvage Poes. Following his phenomenal debut, "The Dante Club," Pearl has again created a beautifully detailed, ingeniously plotted tale of suspense. "I present to you . . . the truth about this man''s death and my life." Baltimore, 1849. The body of Edgar Allan Poe has been buried in an unmarked grave. The public, the press, and even Poe''s own family and friends accept the conclusion that Poe was a second-rate writer who met a disgraceful end as a drunkard. Everyone, in fact, seems to believe this except a young Baltimore lawyer named Quentin Clark, an ardent admirer who puts his own career and reputation at risk in a passionate crusade to salvage Poe''s. As Quentin explores the puzzling circumstances of Poe''s demise, he discovers that the writer''s last days are riddled with unanswered questions the police are possibly willfully ignoring. Just when Poe''s death seems destined to remain a mystery, and forever sealing his ignominy, inspiration strikes Quentin-in the form of Poe''s own stories. The young attorney realizes that he must find the one person who can solve the strange case of Poe''s death: the real-life model for Poe''s brilliant fictional detective character, C. Auguste Dupin, the hero of ingenious tales of crime and detection. In short order, Quentin finds himself enmeshed in sinister machinations involving political agents, a female assassin, the corrupt Baltimore slave trade, and the lost secrets of Poe''s final hours. With his own future hanging in the balance, Quentin Clark must turn master investigator himself to unchain his now imperiled fate from that of Poe''s. Following his phenomenal debut novel, The Dante Club, Matthew Pearl has once again crossed pitch-perfect literary history with innovative mystery to create a beautifully detailed, ingeniously plotted tale of suspense. Pearl''s groundbreaking research-featuring documented material never published before-opens a new window on the truth behind Poe''s demise, literary history''s most persistent enigma. The resulting novel is a publishing event that, through sublime craftsmanship, subtle wit, and devious twists

Boston, 1865. Importants personalitats són brutalment assassinades per un criminal inspirat en els turments de l’Infern de Dante. Només els membres del club Dante -poetes i professors de Harvard dir

Quentin Clark, an ardent admirer of Edgar Allan Poes work, puts his own career and reputation at risk in a passionate crusade to salvage Poes. Following his phenomenal debut, "The Dante Club," Pearl has again created a beautifully detailed, ingeniously plotted tale of suspense.

Boston, 1865. A series of murders, all of them inspired by scenes in Dantes Inferno. Only an elite group of Americas first Dante scholarsHenry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and J. T. Fieldscan solve the mystery. With the police baffled, more lives endangered, and Dantes literary future at stake, the Dante Club must shed its sheltered literary existence and find the killer.

Boston. 1865. A small group of elite scholars prepares to introduce Dante''s vision of hell to America. But so does a murderer. The literary geniuses of the Dante Club - poets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell and publisher J. T. Fields - are finishing America''s first translation of The Divine Comedy. The powerful old guard of Harvard College wants to keep Dante in obscurity, believing that the infiltration of such foreign superstitions will prove as corrupting as the immigrants invading Boston Harbor. The members of the Dante Club fight to keep their sacred literary cause alive, but their plans fall apart when a series of murders erupts through Boston and Cambridge. Only this small group of scholars realises that the gruesome killings are modelled on the descriptions of Hell''s punishments from Dante''s Inferno. With the police baffled, lives endangered and Dante''s literary future at stake, the Dante Club must shed its sheltered literary existence and find a way to stop the killer.

Baltimore, 1849. The body of Edgar Allan Poe has been buried in an unmarked grave. The conclusion that Poe was a second-rate writer who died a drunkard is accepted by all. But none of this deters Quentin Clark, an ardent admirer who risks his own career and reputation in a passionate crusade to salvage Poes. Clark discovers that Poes last days are riddled with vital unanswered questions. But just when Poes death looks destined to remain a mystery, Quentin seeks out the one person who can solve this strange case: the real-life model for Poes brilliant fictional detective character, C. Auguste Dupin. Having successfully recruited the man he believes to have inspired Poes Dupin, Clarke is confronted by another claiming to be the true model. The two master detectives each seek to prove he is the real Dupin by solving the mystery of Poes death. Clark finds himself enmeshed in sinister machinations involving international political agents, a female assassin, the corrupt Baltimore slave trade and the lost secrets of Poes final hours. With his own future hanging in the balance, he must turn master investigator himself to unchain his now imperilled fate from that of Poe.