The Vesuvius Club - A Bit of Fluff (Paperback, 1st Scribner trade pbk. ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	Scribner
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2005
First published:	October 2005
Authors:	Mark Gatiss
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	230
Edition:	1st Scribner trade pbk. ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-7432-8394-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Crime & mystery > General
LSN:	0-7432-8394-5
Barcode:	9780743283946

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