About the book: 2013 / The adventures of the famous detectives Burton and Swinburne continue! The success of the first novel, The Curious Case of Jumping Jack, inspired Mark Hodder to write a new work. Once again, stunning steam punk and jumping through time! The impostor Pretender Tichborne has hatched a daring plan to seize magical black diamonds - fragments of a meteorite that fell to Earth many thousands of years ago - that have the power to change the world. But who would have thought that the investigation into the theft of jewelry would lead to the discovery of an international conspiracy against the British Empire, led by the Russians - Madame Blavatsky and... Grigory Rasputin! But Burton and Swinburne have a secret weapon against them…