The Florentine Doublet. Chiaroscuro

London, 1889. The townspeople are afraid to leave their homes: at night, the streets are haunted by Jack the Ripper—a merciless killer who repeatedly escapes retribution. Writer Milovan Glišić arrives in Britain’s capital to assist the police, but his real mission is hidden: he has been tasked with finding the abducted daughter of the Serbian king. By order of Queen Victoria, the case draws in Japanese envoy Yamagata, whose memory holds the pages of the second part of “The Florentine Doublet,” as well as Britain’s secret service. But the deeper the investigation goes, the clearer it becomes to Milovan: behind the disappearance of the princess lies something that is hard to call a person…