Ruby for the mastodon

If evolution would go a bit different, if not the Ice Age, we wouldn’t have English Channel, and probably there would be mastodons and palaeotragus in Victorian England, predatory saber-toothed mahairods and terrible (but beautiful) amphicyon bear-dogs, powerful boars Kubanoherus would lie in wait for hunters ... that is, on the contrary. It would be some wonderful life with long-dressed ladies and top-hatted gentlemen, balls and carriages, officers in red uniforms, and sacred ruby from a Hindu temple. That last one is necessary, because this is a funny and naughty parody of the famous Wilkie Collins novel, one of the very first detective stories in the world. This version is written by Svetlana Lavrova.