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Originally Posted by ntndeacon
Just finished reading Matthew Pearl's second novel...The Poe Shadows. It takes place in Baltimore right after Poe's death. it is sort of a literary Mystery.
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I read that over the summer. My sister gave me that and the Dante Club. Poe was good, but I preferred Dante. I'd recommend both.
I'm finishing up Philip Kerr's latest (to appear in the US, that is) Bernie Gunther novel. The first three books take place in Nazi Germany, the fifth finds him fleeing to Argentina, and now he is in Peron's Argentina with former SS men. Great insights into Berlin and Germany during the war and how Argentina fits in. If you like Pearl, Kerr is more recent history with the macabre tints of the Dante book in particular all throughout.
Kerr also wrote a book about Isaac Newton that is equally tremendous in a Neal Stephenson kind of way.