Vesuvius Club

A Lucifer Box Novel

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An Extraordinary and Death-Defying Tour of Edwardian Low Life and High Society, accompanied by our host Lucifer Box Esq - artist, dandy, rake ... and lethal secret agent.

Lucifer Box is the darling of the Edwardian belle monde - society's most fashionable portrait painter is a wit, a dandy, a rake, the guest all hostesses (and not a few hosts) must have.

But few know that Lucifer Box is also His Majesty's most accomplished and daring secret agent. Beneath London's façade of Imperial grandeur and divine aesthetes seethes an underworld of crazed anarchists, murder, and despicable vice, and Box is at home in both.

And so of course when Britain's most prominent scientists begin turning up dead, there is only one man his country can turn to.

Lucifer Box ruthlessly deduces and seduces his way from his elegant townhouse at Number 9 Downing Street (all his father left him), to private stews of London and the seediest, most colourful back alleys of Italy, in search of the mighty secret society that may hold the fate of the world in its claw-like hands - the Vesuvius Club.

Detaljer

Forlag: Simon & Schuster
Innbinding: Paperback
Språk: Engelsk
Sider: 256
ISBN: 9780743483797
Utgivelsesår: 2005
Format: 1 x 1 cm
Priser: Short-listed for British Book Awards: Newcomer of the Year 2006.

Om forfatteren

Mark Gatiss is one of The League of Gentlemen from the multi-award winning television show, and the author of the hit novels The Vesuvius Club and its sequel The Devil in Amber. He has also written acclaimed radio and television scripts, including episodes of Doctor Who and Poirot. He has a thick comma of hair that will never stay in place and a rather cruel mouth.

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Seán – 15.09.2005

– Litt Oscar Wilde, litt James Bond, litt Sherlock Holmes og en dæsj P.G. Woodhouse! Dette er en storartet roman der vi møter Lucifer Box, en pertentlig engelsk gentleman. Som alle velskapte karakterer har han mange sider. Historien foregår i King Edwards tid, tempoet er høyt og handlingen sirkler rundt en hemmelig agent og hans forsøk på å finne ut hvem som myrdet en av Storbritannias mest berømte vitenskapsmenn.
Lassevis med frekk humor, og Gatiss leker spøkefullt med, og gjør litt narr av, Bond-sjangeren. Han skaper en ellevill historie med mange rare skiftninger. Hvis du liker historier med dekadanse, humor, action og et hint av skrekk, så anbefaler jeg denne.