Meet Lucifer Box, Esquire, famous portrait painter and secret agent in the service of His Majesty. This man is Sherlock Holmes, James Bond, Monty Python and Austin Powers combined. A person of undoubted charm and wit and a dubious reputation. Such a person will be happy to be accepted in any houses of the world, the demi-monde, and even the despicable bottom of society. Therefore, when the bodies of the most outstanding scientists of the British Empire begin to disappear, only he is able to penetrate into the very core of the mystery. From the salons and studios of London, Lucifer Box descends almost into the underworld in order to penetrate the most secret society in the world, which clenches its clawed paws on the throat of the planet - the Vesuvius club...