The Dante Club" is a historical mystery novel by Matthew Pearl, published in 2003. It follows a group of literary figures, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell, as they translate Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy" in 1865 Boston. When a series of murders mirroring the punishments in Dante's Inferno occur, the club members must use their knowledge of the text to track down the killer