Lucius Trickett, owner of the most famous taxidermy museum in London, conspires with Queen Victoria and intrepid explorer Gilbert Shirley to disprove Darwin’s Theory of Evolution with a stuffed specimen of the elusive ghost Loris. But what is his beautiful wheelchair-bound daughter’s terrible secret, and what happens when the missing link goes missing? Find out in Robin French’s gripping Victorian scientific mystery romp.

This is a rehearsed reading.