"The Dante Club" was a period piece too.

The Dante Club was published in 2003.

The Dante Club is a mystery novel by Matthew Pearl and his debut work.

The meetings of the Dante Club are often engaging, though Pearl makes Longfellow the most tediously sweetsy character since Little Eva, his contemporary.

As he demonstrated in his serial-killers-and-philosophers best seller, "The Dante Club," Pearl is a fine scene-setter and a resolute, if not always inspired, plotter.

He is a protagonist in Matthew Pearl's murder mystery The Dante Club (2003).

A Baltimore lawyer investigates the poet's mysterious death; from the author of "The Dante Club."

Besides, it is the big literary guns who dominate "The Dante Club."

But soon enough "The Dante Club" takes off and goes aloft, thanks to its own original imagination.

It contains some characters from The Dante Club.