The Museum's Secret

The Museum's Secret is the first book in the trilogy and introduces the main characters such as Tom, Don and Jos & Melba.

It's main colour theme is red and there are two different front covers for it.

Plot
When Tom Scatterhorn's eccentric father disappears to the Far East in search of rare beetles, closely followed by his mother, Tom is left to spend Christmas with his uncle and aunt, keepers of the weird and wonderful Scatterhorn Museum. But don’t get too excited – because it's a dusty, dingy place, full of tatty stuffed animals and rickety cases of junk. Nobody really wants to visit it anymore, and it looks as if its days are numbered.

But when Tom comes to live there, he finds more to the museum than meets the eye. The animals may be ragged and moth-eaten but they have an incredible secret – a secret that originated when the stuffed animals were first made, a hundred years earlier. And then Tom discovers he can go right back to the time of their making. . ..

In an exciting adventure that threads in and out of time, from an Edwardian ice fair to the wastes of Mongolia to the jungles of India, Tom discovers that there is far more at stake than the fate of the museum. ..

Reason For Title
The Scatterhorn Museum had a secret - it's animal's come to life.

Chapters

 * 1) A Strange Reception
 * 2) The Divine Spark
 * 3) The Pride Of the Scatterhorns
 * 4) The Visitors
 * 5) To Catcher Hall
 * 6) Midnight In the Museum
 * 7) The Other Place
 * 8) A Good Story
 * 9) That Old Chestnut
 * 10) The Power Of Life And Death
 * 11) Out On the Ice
 * 12) Opening Night
 * 13) Curiosity Kills the Cat
 * 14) The Lair of the Shaitan
 * 15) The Hunt
 * 16) The Devil Comes Out at Night
 * 17) An Unexpected Exit
 * 18) The Big Question
 * 19) A Bird Explains
 * 20) Into the Web
 * 21) A Moment Later
 * 22) Through Time and Out
 * 23) One Blue Bottle
 * 24) Future Imperfect
 * 25) D-Day
 * 26) Genghis Khan
 * 27) Epilogue

Links:
Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Museums-Secret-Remarkable-Scatterhorn/dp/019272083X

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8986218-the-museum-s-secret