A Lucifer to light your Fag

The Curse of the Metro. The free Metro paper that litters the London Undergound is an entertaining read on the train into work. So much so that it had caused me to stop reading books on my daily commute. Realising this I popped into the nearest Borders and had a browse...

Almost immediately I was drawn to the cool cover of The Vesuvius Club. 'A LUCIFER BOX NOVEL' by Mark Gatiss. It's the first of no doubt many ripping yarns featuring Edwardian dandy Lucifer Box - Portrait Painter by day, Agent for His Majesty's Government by night. A very entertaining, humourous tale of murder, intrigue, horror and sexual abandon! Dashes of Oscar Wilde mixed with Sax Rohmer.

The chapter titles provide a good indication of the style of the book and what's in store. Here's a few of them...

• MR LUCIFER BOX ENTERTAINS
• THE MYSTERY OF THE TWO GEOLOGISTS
• THE HORROR IN THE CARDBOARD TUBE
• WHAT KITTY BACKLASH HAD TO TELL
• A LONDON DERRIÈRE
• INTO THE CRIMSON CHAMBER
• THE LAIR OF MR LEE
• THE ENGINES OF VULCAN

Nice black and white illustrations throughout add to the telling the story. I'm looking forward to seeing the forthcoming Graphic Novel of The Vesuvius Club and then reading Lucifer Box's next exciting adventure.