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

"An ingenious thriller" Sunday Times "Masterly story-telling almost worthy of Tusitala himself" -- Nigel Jones Daily Mail "[Pearl's] clever final twist will surprise the general reader, and please Stevenson scholars" -- Janette Currie Independent on Sunday "An enthralling, unusual story, filled with adventure and deceit, that has something interesting to say about the perpetually tangled relationship between literature and commerce" -- Nick Rennison BBC History Magazine "A mixture of a classic heist and literary history lesson; the whole Victorian world of letters is cleverly and wittily reimagined" -- Kate Saunders The Times