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The Romance of Crime

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The Romance of Crime is a novel written by Gareth Roberts. Released in 1995, it is the sixth novel in Virgin Books' Doctor Who Missing Adventures series and tells of the Doctor visiting a prison asteroid.

Characters[]

  • Fourth Doctor
  • Romana II
  • Menlove Stokes - an artist
  • Xais - an executed psychic mutant
  • Margo - the chief of security for the Rock of Judgement

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Publisher's summary[]

"How do you kill someone?" asked the Doctor. "Eviscerate them, crush them, reverse their particles. But do the dead always stay dead?"

The TARDIS brings the Doctor, Romana and K9 to the Rock of Judgement: a court, prison and place of execution built into a rocket-powered asteroid. There they become embroiled in an investigation by the system's finest lawman.

What connects the macabre gallery of artist Menlove Stokes with the slaughter of a survey team on a distant planet? Why is Margo, chief of security, behaving so strangely? And which old enemies of the Doctor are aboard the unmarked spaceship making its way towards the Rock?

In-universe continuity[]

  • For the Doctor and Romana, this story takes place between The Creature from the Pit and Nightmare of Eden.

Sources[]

  • Goodreads
           The Missing Adventures

1994
Goth Opera, Evolution, Venusian Lullaby, The Crystal Bucephalus, State of Change
1995
The Romance of Crime, The Ghosts of N-Space, Time of Your Life, Dancing the Code, The Menagerie, System Shock, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Invasion of the Cat-People, Managra, Millennial Rites, The Empire of Glass, Lords of the Storm
1996 and 1997
Downtime, The Man in the Velvet Mask, The English Way of Death, The Eye of the Giant, The Sands of Time, Killing Ground, The Scales of Injustice, The Shadow of Weng-Chiang, Twilight of the Gods, Speed of Flight, The Plotters, Cold Fusion, Burning Heart, A Device of Death, The Well-Mannered War

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