RE: Bill's comment below.
"I'm certain many gothic and some sci fi writers have tapped
Dante; I'd be
willing to bet some of our literate HB or noir authors have
too."
It seems worth noting that Stanley Ellin, though not
generally regard as an
HB writer, wrote four very good PI novels. The first, for
which he won
1958's Edgar for Best Novel, was entitled *The Eighth
Circle*. The dust
jacket of the first edition directly quoted Dante's
description of the
Eighth Circle of Hell. - Jim Doherty
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