The Vesuvius Club (Lucifer Box #1)
Mark Gatiss
3.56 · 18 ratings · Published: 01 Nov 2004
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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- crime 3
- funny 3
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- steampunk 3
- industrial era 2
- action / adventure 2
- comedy 2
- law enforcement 2
- espionage 2
- suspense 1
- gothic 1
- victorian 1
- political intrigue 1
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- murder 1
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