The Vesuvius Club: A Lucifer Box NovelAn Extraordinary and Death-Defying Tour of Edwardian Low Life and High Society, accompanied by our host Lucifer Box Esq - artist, dandy, rake ... and lethal secret agent. Lucifer Box is the darling of the Edwardian belle monde - society's most fashionable portrait painter is a wit, a dandy, a rake, the guest all hostesses (and not a few hosts) must have. But few know that Lucifer Box is also His Majesty's most accomplished and daring secret agent. Beneath London's façade of Imperial grandeur and divine aesthetes seethes an underworld of crazed anarchists, murder, and despicable vice, and Box is at home in both. And so of course when Britain's most prominent scientists begin turning up dead, there is only one man his country can turn to. Lucifer Box ruthlessly deduces and seduces his way from his elegant townhouse at Number 9 Downing Street (all his father left him), to private stews of London and the seediest, most colourful back alleys of Italy, in search of the mighty secret society that may hold the fate of the world in its claw-like hands - the Vesuvius Club. |
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User Review - brittaniethekid - LibraryThingI wasn't sure what to expect with this book. I'm only familiar with Gatiss' work on the BBC series Sherlock so I'm not all that familiar with his humour or writing styles. However, this book ended up ... Read full review
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User Review - sarahlh - LibraryThingDNF'd about 60 pages in. Life is too short to suffer such an insufferable, narrow-minded bore of a protagonist who thinks himself a lovable rogue, and the story itself is rather flat and didn't trap my interest enough to keep going. Read full review
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 27 |
Section 3 | 37 |
Section 4 | 47 |
Section 5 | 57 |
Section 6 | 117 |
Section 7 | 129 |
Section 8 | 139 |
Section 10 | 161 |
Section 11 | 173 |
Section 12 | 189 |
Section 13 | 197 |
Section 14 | 209 |
Section 15 | 219 |
Section 16 | 229 |
Section 9 | 151 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Vesuvius Club: A Lucifer Box Novel |
| Author | Mark Gatiss |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Simon and Schuster, 2008 |
| ISBN | 1847396674, 9781847396679 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / General |
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