Lucifer Box

Lucifer Box is a fictional painter and secret agent created by Mark Gatiss. He appears in the novels "The Vesuvius Club" and "The Devil in Amber". A lucifer box is the same as a match box-lucifer being the old name for matches.

Persona

Box is a flamboyant, dashing and elegant figure who displays a prominent sense of fashion. A portrait painter to the rich and influential, he uses this as cover for his activities as a secret agent (in the world of the novels, the Royal Academy is the front for Britain's secret services). Box is a charming but ruthless figure, who combines a sardonic sense of humour with a cold determination to kill when necessary.He lives at Number 9 Downing Street (next door to the Prime Minister, famously at Number 10), and presumbably two doors down from the Chancellor of the Exchequer. (Historical note:There used to be a Number 9 Downing Street, but it no longer exists.)

Box is also openly bisexual, and is equally comfortable seducing both male and female partners.

He has a sister called Pandora and a servant called Delilah.

References

*cite web|url=http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,2109823,00.html|title="I'm Agatha Christie with attitude"|publisher=The Guardian|accessdate=2007-07-26