The Vesuvius Club: A Lucifer Box Novel
By (Author) Mark Gatiss
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster
8th September 2005
4th July 2005
United States
General
Fiction
Historical fiction
823.914
Short-listed for British Book Awards: Newcomer of the Year 2006
Paperback
256
Width 5mm, Height 8mm, Spine 1mm
214g
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 facade 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, he's the one man his country can turn to.
Mark Gatiss is the author of several succesful Dr Who novels, among them . He is perhaps best known as one of the creators, writers and stars of the hit BBC television programme, The League of Gentlemen.