City of Death is a novel written by James Goss. Released in 2015, it is a novelization of the Doctor Who serial written by "David Agnew" (a pseudonym used by Douglas Adams and Graham Williams).
Characters[]
- Fourth Doctor
- Romana II
- Duggan - a detective with violent tendencies
- Scaroth (or Count Scarlioni and Tancredi) - the last member of the Jagaroth, splintered throughout human history
- Heidi Scarlioni - Count Scarlioni's wife
- Fyodor Nikolai Kerensky - a temporal scientist working for Scarlioni
- Hermann - Scarlioni's butler, a former Nazi art thief
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Madame Henriette - a guide at the Louvre
- Bourget - a Parisian artist
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Publisher's summary[]
"You're tinkering with time. That's always a bad idea unless you know what you're doing."
The Doctor takes Romana for a holiday in Paris – a city which, like a fine wine, has a bouquet all its own. Especially if you visit during one of the vintage years. But the TARDIS takes them to 1979, a table-wine year, a year whose vintage is soured by cracks – not in their wine glasses but in the very fabric of time itself.
Soon the Time Lords are embroiled in an audacious alien scheme which encompasses home-made time machines, the theft of the Mona Lisa, the resurrection of the much-feared Jagaroth race, and the beginning (and quite possibly the end) of all life on Earth.
Aided by British private detective Duggan, whose speciality is thumping people, the Doctor and Romana must thwart the machinations of the suave, mysterious Count Scarlioni – all twelve of him – if the human race has any chance of survival.
But then, the Doctor's holidays tend to turn out a bit like this.
Full summary[]
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In-universe continuity[]
- The painting discarded by the Doctor in this story reappears in Nick Clark's short story Notre Dame du Temps, in which the Seventh Doctor returns for the painting.
- The Braxiatel Collection first (chronologically) appears in Justin Richards' novel Theatre of War and becomes a recurring location in the Bernice Summerfield series.
- Mike Tucker's audio drama Dust Breeding reveals that the Doctor kept one of the fake Mona Lisas.
- The Doctor and Romana return to Paris in a flashback in Tony Lee's comic The Forgotten.
- Scaroth's Egyptian self is mentioned in Justin Richards' novel The Sands of Time. His other selves are mentioned in Lawrence Miles' novel Christmas on a Rational Planet and Ian Potter's short story Apocrypha Bipedium.
- Time Lords (or at least the Doctor) being able to fly is first mentioned in the comic Levitation and is featured in Dave Stone's novel Sky Pirates! or the Eyes of the Schirron.
- Romana mentions the events of this story in Jonathan Morris' novel Festival of Death.
- Clock-faced people, possibly inspired by the sketch of Romana from this story, appear in Jonathan Morris' novel Anachrophobia.
- In this novelization, the Jagaroth are said to have come to Earth due to a signal from the Racnoss - whose last ship was submerged in the Earth itself per The Runaway Bride.
- The Doctor and Romana mention visiting the Medusa Cascade, a nebula first mentioned in Last of the Time Lords and featured in The Stolen Earth and Journey's End.
- Sirius 5 is mentioned again in Jonathan Morris' audiobook Babblesphere and Nick Abadzis' comic The Art in Space.
- Jagaroth appear again in Richard Dinnick's short story The Kingdom of the Blind.
Sources[]
- TARDIS Wiki