Radio program (UK): The Devil in Amber

Aired on BBC Radio 7.

The author is Mark Gatiss, who also reads his own work. Gatiss (born 17 October 1966) is an English actor, screenwriter and novelist. He is best known as a member of the comedy team The League of Gentlemen, and has both written for and acted in the TV series' Doctor Who and Sherlock.

The Devil in Amber was first published as a novel in 2006, and is the sequel to The Vesuvius Club.

It is twenty years after the events of the first Lucifer Box novel, The Vesuvius Club. Lucifer Box, portrait painter, wit, dandy, rake and occasional assassin for His Majesty's Government, has aged well despite the loss of his valet (and lover) Charlie Jackpot in undisclosed events related to First World War espionage in 1917.

The novel opens in New York at sometime in the 1920s after attending to a routine assassination that does not go smoothly. Threatened with retirement by his superiors, Box is assigned to investigate an Anglo-American fascist fraternity, FAUST (the Fellowship of Anglo-United States Trust), and its sinister leader, Olympus Mons. Sal Volatile, an informant, assists him and provides intriguing hints at some wider, dire threat to the world presented by the organisation's interest in the occult, but is soon murdered and Box is framed for the crime.

On the run and hunted by his own organisation, Box is left with little choice but to follow the trail Sal Volatile has shown him, even if it leads to the Devil himself.

Part 1:
Dandy secret agent Lucifer Box investigates who's behind dodgy, drug-related dealings in 1920s Manhattan. Read by the author.

Part 2:
Dandy spy hero Lucifer Box is accused of murder - as he probes a nasty Fascist cult in 1920s New York. Read by the author.

Part 3:
Falsely charged with murder - dandy spy hero Lucifer Box has fled New York aboard a mysterious ship. Read by the author.

Part 4:
Dandy spy-hero Lucifer Box must rescue the 'perfect victim' to foil Olympus Mons' plan to raise the devil.

Part 5:
Time's running out for spy-hero Lucifer Box. Can he reach evil Olympus Mons' lair in time to save the world? Read by the author.