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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)

The Vesuvius Club (Lucifer Box #1) Paperback | Pages: 240 pages

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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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Title	:	The Vesuvius Club (Lucifer Box #1)
Author	:	Mark Gatiss
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First 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

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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

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 :-)

Naughty, bawdy, silly, witty, over-the-top. Just a few ways to describe Mark Gatisss rollicking caper - which I enjoyed enormously.Sure, it can be described as Sherlock Holmes meets James Bond (if theyd been brave enough to cast the estimable, dishy Rupert Everett in the role), but it seems to share more DNA with a lesser known British export, The Assassination Bureau, a film starring Oliver Reed and Diana Rigg. Like The Vesuvius Club its an anachronistic mash-up of Edwardian starch, wild

DNF @ 10%Not hooking me at all. The main character seems distasteful. But since that seems to be the idea of the book, I think it's safe to say there's nothing wrong with it and it's just not for me.

THE VESUVIUS CLUB (Satirical Mystery-Edwardian England/Italy-early 1900s) G+Gatiss, Mark StandaloneSimon & Schuster, 2004- UK HardcoverLucifer Box is an elegant, bi-sexual rake and a secret service agent who lives at Number Nine Downing Street. When two leading scientists are murdered its up to Lucifer to find who and why. His investigation takes him to Naples. With a beautiful woman on his arm and a young lover, Charlie, who introduces him to the debauched delights of the Vesuvius Club,

The author himself states that The Vesuvius Club is nothing more than a bit of fluff, and in many ways he's right. The characterisation could never be referred to as three-dimensional, the events are cartoonish, and the pacing is off-kilter. That said, I still enjoyed this immensely. It's as if you were to take Oscar Wilde, Ian Fleming, the better elements of the Austin Power movies, and The League of Gentlemen, combine them all together in an Edwardian London setting, with a plot so absurd you

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