About the book: 2013 / 1888. Queen Victoria was legally married to Vlad the Impaler, a Wallachian prince, better known as Count Dracula... Yes, Kim Newman's Dracula did not drag around the wife of some lawyer, provoke Van Helsing and his team of fearless fighters, jeopardizing the centuries-old cherished plan for the founding of a new race of beings whose path will lead through Death, and not through Life. He found it easier to implement his plans, being at the pinnacle of power of the most powerful of empires. Vampires came out of hiding, literally and figuratively. And the gallery of familiar characters from British history and literature has been enriched with portraits of very unusual personalities. Meet vampire Genevieve Dieudonné and Charles Beauregard from the Diogenes Club. Will they be able to solve the mystery of Jack the Ripper??