Mr Lucifer Box Esq is a portraitist, dandy, wit, rake, and his majesty's most dashing secret agent. When something is wrong in the empire he's the man for the job.....especially if it involves a mixture of both ends of the social scale!
I love the writing style of this book, in the vain of Oscar Wilde, but perhaps with a bit more buggery that Wilde was able to get away with (much as he might have liked to!) - how things have changed!
Mr Box is not a likeable person, yet it's had not to like him! He's selfish, arrogant, shocking and generally a cad - but people are obviously drawn to him, just as I was whilst reading. I wonder how much of the character is based on the author?
The story centres around the deaths of some prominent vulcanologists, and Box is despatched to find out 'whodunnit' - so it's a detective novel, of a sort.
If you are easily offended don't read the Lucifer Box books (there are three so far), but if you can cope with buggery, murder and high fashion this books is a great read, easy and funny.
Bought on Green Metropolis.
June 2010
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