Lucifer's Box

Since the beginning of time, Lucifer has been playing his great game. Kings and priests, aristocrats and common folk, millionaires and the poor—all of them dance to the same tune of the Master: the Dance of Death! In the old days, he commissioned its depictions to artists and sculptors; now the fashionable “real” art is one made from living material. And hundreds of famous and unknown artists of the new age create their masterpieces from living people.

Jack the Ripper, Chikatilo, the Boston Strangler… One such “artist,” leaving on the bodies of victims verses from an ancient manuscript dedicated to the Dance, is being hunted by the Tallinn police and restorer Dmitry Starygin. Besides wanting to help the investigation, Starygin has another interest: in the engravings of the Dance of Death, the location where the legendary Lucifer’s casket is hidden is encoded…