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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.

'Charismatic spy extraordinaire Lucifer Box, whose adventures in bisexuality are every bit as breathtaking as his undercover work for monarch and country... Lucifer Box is a spy like no other' Scotsman 'A suitably ridiculous romp... The pleasure Box derives in solving his last case is nothing compared to the pleasure of actually reading it. This prose is as delicious as the decadence it parodies... A rakish wit and Wildean flamboyance binds all the divine nonsense together' Metro 'The first of these brilliant pastiches, The Vesuvius Club, saw society portrait painter and secret agent Box cut a swathe through Edwardian London in Buchaneering style. The Devil in Amber saw Box tackle Olympus Mons, a sinister British fascist party leader in the run up to the war, parodying Dennis Wheatley along the way. Now it's post war, and Gatiss has caught up to early Ian Fleming with a dash of Graham Greene' Independent on Sunday 2/11 'Another wickedly funny caper' Daily Mirror 'The man with the golden pun. Watch out, James Bond: Lucifer Box is back' Independent on Sunday 'Between 2004 and 2008, the scriptwriter and League of Gentleman actor Mark Gatiss produced his Lucifer Box trilogy. Each of the novels featuring this bisexual aesthete and British spy is a decadent, pun-filled romp. Each, too, neatly pastiches pulp fiction from a different era' 'How to judge a book by its cover', Financial Times 6/2