The Vesuvius Club: A Lucifer Box Novel
Registered by patsch of -- Somewhere in London 🤷‍♀️ , Greater London United Kingdom on 5/5/2009
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This book is in a Controlled Release!
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Journal Entry 1 by patsch from -- Somewhere in London 🤷‍♀️ , Greater London United Kingdom on Tuesday, May 5, 2009
blurb:
Lucifer Box is the darling of the Edwardian belle monde: portrait painter, wit, dandy and rake - the guest all hostesses must have. And most do.
But few of his connections or conquests know that Lucifer Box is also His Majesty's most daring secret agent, at home in both London's Imperial grandeur and the underworld of crazed vices that seethes beneath.
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 (somebody has to live there), to the seediest stews in Naples, in search of the mighty secret society that may hold the fate of the world in its claw-like hands - the Vesuvius Club.
I just love this book. It's like a bizarre mix of James Bond, Oscar Wilde and The League of Gentlemen.
Lucifer Box is the darling of the Edwardian belle monde: portrait painter, wit, dandy and rake - the guest all hostesses must have. And most do.
But few of his connections or conquests know that Lucifer Box is also His Majesty's most daring secret agent, at home in both London's Imperial grandeur and the underworld of crazed vices that seethes beneath.
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 (somebody has to live there), to the seediest stews in Naples, in search of the mighty secret society that may hold the fate of the world in its claw-like hands - the Vesuvius Club.
I just love this book. It's like a bizarre mix of James Bond, Oscar Wilde and The League of Gentlemen.
Sent the book to jellycat.
