Taxidermy collector Garth Carson has just made a purchase for his girlfriend's birthday -- a white crow mounted in a bell jar. While placing it in his car, he's accosted by Fletcher, who is angrily screaming that the bird is his. Being the dealer that he is, Garth offers to sell it for an enormous amount. Needless to say, he drives away from the angry guy with the bird safely in his car. Well, this is just the beginning of the adventures of Garth Carson, his girlfriend, Angie, and the famous white crow. What's so surprising is that every time he turns around, someone wants that white crow.

After returning home from Angie's birthday dinner, Garth and Angie are attacked and robbed. Many of his valuable skins and mounts are taken, along with the crow. A few days later, he receives a call from the Massachusetts State Police that his taxidermy was found in a safety net over the Connecticut River. So Garth and Angie set off on a road trip to retrieve his merchandise. All of it's recovered, except for (you guessed it) the white crow. Okay, why would the thieves leave the valuables behind? Or did the crow miss the net and plunge to the water below? The answers to these questions can only be found if they continue on their road trip to where the trouble began, Bermuda, Vermont.

While in Bermuda, Garth and Angie are met with much trouble from Fletcher and his friends. Garth's confrontation with Fletcher sends Fletcher fleeing into the front of a truck. And the only description Garth can relate to the police about the accident and Fletcher's death is that he saw a fin. Now Garth is immersed in a world of dead gorillas, gaffs, freak sideshows, pygmies shooting poison arrows and someone with a fin. Believe it or not, all of the law enforcement agencies brought in to work this case have a hard time believing his story. Now it's time for Angie to come to his rescue.

Following up on yet another lead concerning a missing white crow, Angie goes to Mallard Island, Maine. The issue is not just getting the bird back (her birthday present), but why people are willing to kill for it. What they discover in Maine will answer that question along with many others.

STUFFED is an incredibly funny and adventurous story that pits the ordinary against the bizarre. Wiprud has created such an array of quirky characters that they give the word bizarre a brand new meaning. This book is hard to put down until you know why everyone's feathers are so ruffled by the white crow in the bell jar. A great read!