Five years after a series of Dante-inpired killings stunned Boston, a politician is found in a Londen park with his neck crushed by an enormous stone device etched with a verse from the Divine Comedy. When other shocking deaths erupt across the city, all in the style of the penances Dante memorialized in Purgatory, poet Christina Rossetti fears her missing brother, Gabriel, will be the next victim. The unwavering Christina enlists poets Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, and Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes to decipher the literary clues, and together these unlikely investigators unravel the secrets of Dante's verses to find Gabriel and stop the killings. A dazzling tale of intrigue, The Dante Chamber is a riveting journey across Londen and into both the beauty and darkness of Dante. Expertly blending fact and fiction, Matthew Pearl gives us a historical mystery like no other that captivates and surprises until the last page.