Mark's third novel in the Lucifer Box series will be released on 3rd November according to Amazon today.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Butterfly-Lucifer-Box-Novel/dp /0743257111/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1205158786& amp;sr=8-2
The working title for the novel was Clawhammer and it sounds from the synopsis as if the book hasn't changed setting or theme since Mark announced it last year.
Synopsis:
With the young Queen Elizabeth newly established on her throne, Lucifer Box Esq is now by Appointment to Her Majesty. But the secretive Royal Academy seems a very different place and, approaching retirement, Box decides to investigate one last case...A series of bizarre accidents has claimed the lives of some of the world's most important people. Lucifer Box discovers that they were all members of the mysterious Widows' Circle, headed by the delectable Melissa Ffawthawe. He soon finds himself in the Transylvanian forests on the trail of boy assassin Kingdom Come and his deadly masters in the Anarcho-Criminal Retinue of Nihilists, Incendiarists and Murderers - A.C.R.O.N.I.M! What is the mysterious Black Butterfly? Who is Gottfried Clawhammer? Why is the world's biggest scout jamboree taking place on a fortified island in the Caribbean? All will be revealed as Lucifer Box takes his artistic licence to kill into the sleek, bleak era of the Cold War...
