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Title	:	The Vesuvius Club (Lucifer Box #1)
Author	:	Mark Gatiss
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 240 pages
Published	:	July 4th 2005 by Simon & Schuster Ltd (first published November 1st 2004)
Categories	:	Mystery. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Crime. Humor

The Vesuvius Club (Lucifer Box #1)

Mark Gatiss

Paperback | Pages: 240 pages

Rating: 3.59 | 5188 Users | 543 Reviews

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Meet Lucifer Box: 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.

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Original Title:	The Vesuvius Club
ISBN:	0743483790 (ISBN13: 9780743483797)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Lucifer Box #1
Literary Awards:	Gaylactic Spectrum Award Nominee for Best Novel (2006)

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Ratings: 3.59 From 5188 Users | 543 Reviews

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I guess I enjoyed this well enough. a swiftly paced romp through Edwardian England and Naples ("Edwardian Naples" just doesn't sound right) featuring Her Majesty's Special Assassin - the snobby and callous Lucifer Box. many things are afoot and those things include murder, a sex club, a rather insensitively handled trans character, some painting, some servant troubles, and a nefarious plot to destroy all of Italy. plus (view spoiler)[a lead who turns out to be bisexual; which - as a bi fellow

Lucifer Box, now there's a name to make you sit up and take note, tall. slim, long black hair, eyes of blue, beautiful slender hands,(he says this himself) and someone you do not want to cross. Think Sherlock meets Tom Hiddleston(with black hair) and you have the dynamic Lucifer, sigh..He is a secret agent of type, but also an artist, a portrait artist. This is the first in a trilogy of books by Mark Gatiss, (League of Gentlemen, Dr. Who) in which Lucifer, through no fault of his own, I might

SO much fun. Written by one of the Sherlock showrunners years ago, the one who plays his brother, this has all the cleverness of Sherlock Holmes, fun of James Bond and just general cheekiness. The updated sexuality adds another layer of fun. Did I mention fun?

Surprisingly, I thoroughly enjoyed this first part of the Lucifer Box trilogy. Some parts had me literally laughing out loud. The humour is delightful, the characters and places unforgettable. The descriptions are so vivid (and not exhaustive or prescriptive) your senses are invoked to be there as a bystander.A good old romp, with a bit of suspense and a lot of wit :-)

I had pretty high hopes for this book because the synopsis makes it sound like everything you could ever ask for in a novel...espionage, intrigue, secret societies bent on world domination, a roguish anti-hero. Unfortunately, I couldn't even make it all the way through. It just got too ridiculous, and the plot was so simplistic it was like watching a cartoon. Another peeve of mine is that it was written in the first person with the main character Lucifer narrating, and he got on my nerves SO

Why did I borrow this book at the library ? The author is Mark Gatiss, Sherlock's brother in "that" series. That's why.At the beginning, I thought there was a lot of humour, wit, but that the story didn't keep me on my toes.And then, and then... I got carried away, it wasn't awfully original, but it was well written and I found the Lucifer/Charlie dynamics working really well and promised very good times in the future.I'll happily read the next Lucifer box !

I am very much a fan of Gatiss' writing for TV, such as Sherlock and Doctor Who, so I knew I would enjoy his debut novel when I stumbled upon it in a second hand bookshop. Lucifer Box is and Edwardian artist who lives in Downing Street and has a rapier wit that makes him the lift and soul of the party. He is also a secret agent for the country and here is called to action when some prominent scientists start to be found dead. Who is behind this and why? What is VC? Only a trip to Naples will