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Loading... The Vesuvius Club (BBC Radio Collection: Crimes and Thrillers)by Mark Gatiss
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. ragwaine | May 11, 2009 |   Mildly enjoyable for its silly plot and "steampunk" stylings, this novel suffers from a protagonist who's rather more bark than bite, and a preponderance of sex--I suppose it's an answer to the oversexed James Bond. The plot of the novel is relatively straightforward and as "fluffy" as promised by the cover blurb. This is pretty much an anti-Bond; I suspect most fans of Fleming won't find this amusing. (  )Imrahil2001 | Feb 12, 2009 | I read this in a back to back book joined with Mark Gatiss's second Lucifer Box novel 'Devil in Amber'. I enjoyed both books, very funny main character who is a bit of a dandy, sleeping with anyone he can find and having all sorts of jolly fun while he manages to save the world. Great holiday read. (  )sarah_rubyred | Jan 26, 2009 | As you would expect from a member of the League of Gentlemen and one of the writers for the new series of Dr Who, this is an opulent romp. Lucifer Box is an Edwardian painter and spy whose office is based in a gentleman's lavatory underneath the Royal Academy of Art. Lucifer is an interesting, self-obsessed character, the opening chapters are peppered with asides about his pretty mouth and fine white hands. He's also very very naughty, with 'a girl with a name and the body of a goddess ... There'd been a balcony, starlight, whispered words and then something very cheeky in the rhododendrons' as well as with anyone else who takes his fancy. He lives at 9 Downing Street (someone has to and its "awfully handy for town"). The prose is superb, darkly funny and surreal and this is an entertaining read. (  )riverwillow | Jan 10, 2009 | Amusing camp thriller set in Edwardian times. A friend gave me the second in the series for Christmas, so I bought this one. ( )Robertgreaves | Dec 30, 2008 | 0.030 seconds to build listing
Amazon.com Download Description (ISBN 0743483790, Paperback)"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. "(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:17 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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I really liked the zombies and the writing. I don't read a lot of stuff like this and that may have been part of the enjoyment but I would definitely like to read more eventually or at least check out the graphic novel. The novel had some great illustrations compliments of Ian Bass so I'm curious if he also did the graphic novel. (