Lada Luzina, one of the best-selling writers in Ukraine, presents to the reader her new novel “Jack the Ripper from Khreshchatyk” - in a traditional mystical style, where Kiev time is intricately intertwined: the 80s of the 19th century and the present day, where the nights are full of horror, and the days are full of unexpected discoveries. The writer conveys with amazing accuracy the characteristic atmosphere of old Kyiv - an aesthetic, bohemian, mysterious city, full of secrets. Where Jack the Ripper wanders along Khreshchatyk, inciting fear, in search of new victims... This book also presents chapters from the first full biography of Wilhelm Kotarbinsky - from another famous Ukrainian writer Irina Potanina.