All-Consuming Fire is a novel written by Andy Lane. Released in 1994, it is the twenty-seventh novel in Virgin's Doctor Who New Adventures series and tells of the Doctor meeting Sherlock Holmes.
Characters[]
- Seventh Doctor
- Bernice Summerfield
- Ace
- Sherlock Holmes
- Dr. John Watson
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Publisher's summary[]
- "I've been all over the universe with you, Doctor, and Earth in the nineteenth century is the most alien place I've ever seen."
England, 1887. The secret library of St John the Beheaded has been robbed. The thief has taken forbidden books which tell of mythical beasts and gateways to other worlds. Only one team can be trusted to solve the crime: Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson.
As their investigation leads them to the dark underside of Victorian London, Holmes and Watson soon realise that someone else is following the same trail. Someone who has the power to kill with a glance. And they sense a strange, inhuman shape observing them from the shadows. Then they meet the mysterious traveller known only as the Doctor -- the last person alive to read the stolen books.
While Bernice waits in nineteenth-century India, Ace is trapped on a bizarre alien world. And the Doctor finds himself unwillingly united with England's greatest consulting detective.
Full summary[]
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In-universe continuity[]
- The Library of St. John the Beheaded is featured. This location also appears in Craig Hinton's novel Millennial Rites and Andy Lane's novel The Empire of Glass. Similar locations appear in Lawrence Miles' novel Christmas on a Rational Planet and the episode Extremis.
- The Doctor mentions the Gods of Ragnarok (who appeared in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy), Fenric (the titular antagonist of The Curse of Fenric), and says that the Great Old One from White Darkness is Cthulhu.
- The Doctor mentions the Raston Warrior Robots - who first appeared in The Five Doctors.
- The Shlangii are featured. They were first mentioned in The Ribos Operation.
- Bernice meets Mycroft Holmes in Jim Smith's audio drama The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel.
- Sherlock's existence as a person and a fictional character is examined in Kelly Hale's Faction Paradox novel Erasing Sherlock and Andrew Hickey's Faction Paradox short story The Book of the Enemy.
See also[]
| Title | Author | Release date | Significance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erasing Sherlock | Kelly Hale | 2006 | A novel within the "Whoniverse" featuring Sherlock Holmes |
| The Fifth Heart | Dan Simmons | 2015 | A major apocryphal Sherlock Holmes novel |
| Millennial Rites | Craig Hinton | 1995 | A Doctor Who novel featuring Lovecraftian entities |
Sources[]
- Goodreads
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