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Mark Gatiss
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The Vesuvius Club: A Bit of Fluff (Lucifer Box Novels) |
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English |
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230 |
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2005-10-11 |
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0743283945 |
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Scribner |
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0.83 pounds |
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0.6 x 5.5 x 8.44 inches |
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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.
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soniaandree (France) (2007/03/20):
The book is good, the story well written. However, the main character is insufferable, his contempt for others neverending. Only when reading "The Hippopotamus" by Stephen Fry could I find a higher degree of sarcasm in a main character. I just hope the Mr Gatiss doesn't see other people that way.
Katie (USA: GA) (2009/01/06):
I loved this book! I found it witty and funny in the vein with Jasper Fforde. A word of warning: if you are unfomfortable with homosexual imagery, this book may not be for you... however I hope you won't let that stop you from reading this because I laughed and laughed... very Monty Python!
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