THE VESUVIUS CLUB
Book ID/图书代码： 12290005B03331
English Summary/英文概要： 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 of his connections or conquests know that Lucifer Box is also His Majesty’s most accomplished and daring secret agent. Beneath London’s facade 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 the 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.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 愛德華時代的倫敦，呈現出大英帝國雄偉壯觀的繁榮景象。而這美好的另一面，卻是充斥著犯罪與邪惡組織的下層社會，宛如維多利亞時期，這就是 Lucifer Box所處的時代 。
Lucifer Box是當時最高級的肖像畫家，於社會各階層都相當吃香。然而於上流階層社交圈中，沒人知道他的另一個身分是秘密情報員…
Awards/获奖情况：Stephen Fry
’The most delicious, depraved, inventive, macabre and hilarious literary debut I can think of. More, I want more!’
GUARDIAN
’A perniciously addictive piece of escapism’
TIMES
’If you’re going to have humorous pastiche, give me this any day, with its evocations of Edwardian melodrama and derring-do’
About the Author/作者介绍： Mark Gatiss較知名的作品為 Dr. Who系列小說。同時，他也是一位演員，於英國老牌電視劇”紳士同盟”（The League Of Gentlemen）中演出。
Mark Gatiss is the author of several succesful Dr Who novels. He is perhaps best known as one of the creators, writers and stars of the hit BBC television programme, The League of Gentlemen.
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