The City of the Dead is a book written by Lloyd Rose. Released in 2001, it is the forty-ninth book in BBC Books' Eighth Doctor Adventures series and sees the Doctor being invested in the world of voodoo.
Characters[]
- Eighth Doctor
- Fitz Kreiner
- Anji Kapoor
- Jonas Rust
- Morgan Thales
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Publisher's Summary[]
“Nothing can get into the TARDIS,” the Doctor whispered. Then he realised that Nothing had.
New Orleans, the early 21st century. A dealer in morbid artefacts has been murdered. A charm carved from human bone is missing. An old plantation, miles from any water, has been destroyed by a tidal wave.
Anji goes dancing. Fitz goes grave-robbing. The Doctor attracts the interest of a homicide detective and the enmity of a would-be magician. He wants to find out the secret of the redneck thief and his blind wife. He'd like to help the crippled curator of a museum of magic. He's trying to refuse politely the request of a crazy young artist that he pose naked with the man's wife.
Most of all, he needs to figure out what all of them have to do with the Void that is hunting him down.
Before it catches him.
Full Summary[]
Prologue[]
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Part One: Dream Place[]
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Part Two: Memory Lane[]
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Part Three: Dead End[]
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Epilogue[]
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In-university continuity[]
- Anji finds the train set from Jonathan Blum's short story Model Train Set.
- The Doctor mentions Graham Greene - who he met in Paul Leonard's The Turing Test.
See also[]
| Title | Author | Release date | Significance |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Adventuress of Henrietta Street | Lawrence Miles | 2001 | A Doctor Who novel with similar themes |
| A Free Man of Color | Barbara Hambly | 1997 | A novel with a similar setting |
| White Darkness | David A. McIntee | 1993 | A Doctor Who novel which uses voodoo |
| Darkness Comes | Dean Koontz | 1984 | A novel which uses voodoo |
Sources[]
- TARDIS Wiki