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The Vesuvius Club: A Bit of Fluff Paperback - 2005
by Mark Gatiss
With a healthy dose of the macabre, an award-winning British writer sends his dashing hero Lucifer Box from Edwardian London to a secret sex club in the bowels of Mount Vesuvius in search of a murderer.
Summary
Meet Lucifer Box: Equal parts James Bond and Sherlock Holmes, with a twist of Monty Python and a dash of Austin Powers, Lucifer has a charming countenance and rapier wit that make him the guest all hostesses must have. And most do.
But few of his conquests know that Lucifer is also His Majesty's most daring secret agent, at home in both London's Imperial grandeur and in its underworld of despicable vice. So when Britain's most prominent scientists begin turning up dead, there is only one man his country can turn to for help.
Following a dinnertime assassination, Lucifer is dispatched to uncover the whereabouts of missing agent Jocelyn Poop. Along the way he will give art lessons, be attacked by a poisonous centipede, bed a few choice specimens, and travel to Italy on business and pleasure. Aided by his henchwoman Delilah; the beautiful, mysterious, and Dutch Miss Bella Pok; his boss, a dwarf who takes meetings in a lavatory; grizzled vulcanologist Emmanuel Quibble; and the impertinent, delicious, right-hand-boy Charlie Jackpot, Lucifer Box deduces and seduces his way from his elegant townhouse at Number 9 Downing Street (somebody has to live there) to the ruined city of Pompeii, to infiltrate a highly dangerous secret society that may hold the fate of the world in its clawlike grip--the Vesuvius Club.
But few of his conquests know that Lucifer is also His Majesty's most daring secret agent, at home in both London's Imperial grandeur and in its underworld of despicable vice. So when Britain's most prominent scientists begin turning up dead, there is only one man his country can turn to for help.
Following a dinnertime assassination, Lucifer is dispatched to uncover the whereabouts of missing agent Jocelyn Poop. Along the way he will give art lessons, be attacked by a poisonous centipede, bed a few choice specimens, and travel to Italy on business and pleasure. Aided by his henchwoman Delilah; the beautiful, mysterious, and Dutch Miss Bella Pok; his boss, a dwarf who takes meetings in a lavatory; grizzled vulcanologist Emmanuel Quibble; and the impertinent, delicious, right-hand-boy Charlie Jackpot, Lucifer Box deduces and seduces his way from his elegant townhouse at Number 9 Downing Street (somebody has to live there) to the ruined city of Pompeii, to infiltrate a highly dangerous secret society that may hold the fate of the world in its clawlike grip--the Vesuvius Club.
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- Title The Vesuvius Club: A Bit of Fluff
- Author Mark Gatiss
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Scribner Book Company, New York, New York
- Date 2005-10-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780743283946 / 0743283945
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 1.52 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, London (England)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005051566
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
"Mark Gatiss has brought his customary wit and outlandish style to the page...sharp, witty and shocking."
-- Derby Evening Telegraph (UK)
-- Derby Evening Telegraph (UK)
Citations
- Ingram Advance, 10/01/2005, Page 98
- Kirkus Reviews, 08/01/2005, Page 818
- Library Journal, 10/15/2005, Page 52
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 06/01/2005, Page 106
- PW Notes and Reprints, 09/05/2005, Page 39
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