Boston, 1865. Several major American poets complete the first translation of The Divine Comedy in the Western Hemisphere, but Dante's Inferno becomes a reality. New England is shocked by a series of sadistic murders of the most prominent good citizens of the city, the true pillars of society. The poet Longfellow, Doctor Holmes and Professor Lowell consider it their duty to understand that before them is a chain of eerie mystical coincidences, or is it the great Florentine himself who returned six hundred years later to take revenge for his unjust exile. Matthew Pearl’s historical and literary thriller “Dante’s Club”, the most famous novel 2004, translated into thirty languages - for the first time in Russian. Matthew Pearl's novel "Dante's Club" entered the bestseller lists of dozens of Western periodicals (among others - the New York Times, Boston Globe, and Washington Post). US News & World Report named the novel a Best Book of 2003, Library Journal a Best First Novel, and Borders a Best Thriller of 2003.