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Detective Ash White, as always, had a knack for sticking his nose into the supernatural wherever he could find it. When billionaire philanthropist Robert St. John dies, Ash gets a call. However, the case is not a run-of-the-mill murder but one that boasts the hand of the dead—literally. Ash dives right into the investigation and finds that, while the cause of death was normal, the events leading to Robert’s death could hardly be classified as such. His investigation leads him to an old classmate of Robert’s, but to Ash’s surprise, after being locked in the basement momentarily, he finds canisters full of dead bodies—and, most shocking of all, a dead body walking.

In the end, Ash manages to have a reasonable conversation with Robert’s old classmate, who tells him about a fateful trip to Haiti that they had taken together. The story becomes so wild that Ash struggles to believe it, and just when he feels he’s able to convince the classmate to surrender to the police, the classmate commits suicide, taking most of the evidence with him. Boxed in, Ash continues his investigation into the bodies and discovers that most of them were Robert’s old classmates.

Ash’s investigation then leads him to another witness from Robert’s college days, a woman named Suzanne. Suzanne speaks of a time when several of her classmates went missing, only to reappear as walking corpses. But before Ash can dive deeper, he has to deal with a series of pharmaceutical crimes linked to the now-deceased Robert. Once that’s handled, his larger investigation takes him to Haiti. Alongside his close friend, Colonel Jack, Dr Travis, they head to Haiti, where they discover an institutionalized practice of the undead.

With the help of a local bounty hunter named Solange, they manage to get to the heart of the island and, after a tumultuous battle, bring an end to the reign of the Dead Queen. However, this is far from the end of Ash’s adventures. Upon returning home, he is thrust into another case—this one involving missing blood from hospitals across the state. His assistant jokes that it might be the work of a vampire, but Ash has encountered something similar before in his early days as a private detective.

In a flashback, we go back to when Ash had just started his agency, much to his father’s dismay. He encounters a case involving stolen blood from a blood bank, which leads him on a wild goose chase. However, just as Ash gets closer to finding the culprit, the thefts suddenly stop, leaving him frustrated and without leads.

Back in the present, Ash and Colonel Jack begin investigating the new wave of blood thefts, concluding that the scale of the operation is too large for a simple thief. With the help of Mrs. St. John, who has gone into hiding for reasons known only to her, she gives Ash crucial information—someone powerful is funding the thefts in search of immortality. Ash quickly concludes that it is linked to the death of the Dead Queen.

Meanwhile, the true villain seeks immortality out of a deep fear of death. He is none other than the elder brother of Ash’s first love, who tragically died from hereditary cancer. Eventually, Ash tracks the blood thefts back to a mansion mentioned briefly by Mrs. St. John—the home of a man named Jonas. Ash manages to apprehend Jonas, proving that he was the one funding the blood thefts. As he searches Jonas’s home, Ash finds an intriguing clue—one involving a code created by Jonas and his old best friend, one he easily conclude was the mastermind.

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Volume 1