Saturday, January 22, 2011

The Vesuvius Club by Mark Gatiss

Lucifer Box—the greatest portraitist of the Edwardian age and England's most dashing secret agent—investigates a series of bizarre disappearances and plunges headlong into low life and high society. Who is killing Britain's most prominent vulcanologists? What secrets lie beyond the grave? See him…Confront the purple undead. Instruct the mysterious and beguiling Bella Pok. Disguise himself with a false mustache. Face an ominous evil in the depths of a volcano. And come to grips with his new manservant, Charlie Jackpot.

I am unsure about this book. The was some clever writing and I did laugh out loud a couple of times, but it was also rather silly and Lucifer Box was not exactly likeable.

An enjoyable enough fluff read but it doesn't leave me wanting to read any more of the series. 

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