The Professor's Assassin (Short Story)

Praise for Matthew Pearl
 
“Matthew Pearl is a shining star of literary fiction.”—Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code
 
“The term ‘thrilling’ genuinely applies.”—Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked
 
Advance praise for The Technologists
 
“The Technologists combines everything I love in a thriller: fascinating history, science, and a frightening mystery that demands to be solved. Matthew Pearl is one of my must-read authors. He never fails to intrigue and thrill!”—Tess Gerritsen, author of The Silent Girl
 
“Fascinating, mesmerizing, and richly atmospheric, The Technologists is the best yet from a true master of the historical thriller. I loved this novel.”—Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author of Buried Secrets and Vanished
 
“Pearl’s signature complex plotting, strewn with red herrings and populated with unlikely villains, leaves readers as shocked and intrigued as the Bostonians.”—Booklist                   
 
“Pearl again blends detective fiction with historical characters (such as pioneering feminist and MIT-trained scientist Ellen Swallow), and his cast reads like a who’s who of nineteenth-century Boston. . . . Great fun.”—Publishers Weekly