The Vesuvius Club: A Bit of Fluff (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780743283946)

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.

Author: Mark Gatiss
ISBN-10: 0743283945
ISBN-13: 9780743283946
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2005
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d
Award: Spectrum Awards - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2005 pg. 818
PW Notes and Reprints 09/05/2005 pg. 39
Ingram Advance 10/01/2005 pg. 98
Library Journal 10/15/2005 pg. 52
Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/01/2005 pg. 106