The Vesuvius Club: A Lucifer Box Novel

ISBN-13: 9780743483797 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 256 str.

Mark Gatiss

Opis

The critical and commercial autumn hit now between soft covers. Prepare to be seduced. 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. And so, of course, when Britain's most prominent scientists begin turning up dead, there is only one man his country can turn to...

O autorze

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.