Doctor Who and the City of Death
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| Title: | Doctor Who and the City of Death |
| Publisher: | TSV New Zealand Doctor Who Fan Club |
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| Author(s): | David Lawrence |
| Cover Artist(s): | Alistair Hughes |
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| Date(s): | see below |
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| Genre: | gen |
| Fandom: | Doctor Who |
| Language: | English |
| External Links: | available in PDF Format |
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Doctor Who and the City of Death is a gen novel by David Lawrence. Cover artwork by Alistair Hughes.
Print editions: Doctor Who - City of Death by David Lawrence (first edition) TSV Books, 1992; (second edition) TSV Books, 2002.
From the publisher, "When the Doctor and Romana take a break from their travels in Paris 1979, a holiday is far from what they get.
Strange things are happening: lost art treasures are turning up, secret experiments are causing distortions in time, and the greatest art fraud in history is about to reach its fruition.
When the time travellers team up with Duggan, a British detective, they learn that everything points to Count Carlos Scarlioni, a wealthy and famous art collector who is somehow much, much more than he seems...
If Scarlioni is allowed to succeed, his plans will result in all life on Earth ceasing to have ever existed..."
Prologue
- We'll Always Have Paris
- Art and Lies
- In Equal Scale Weighing Delight and Dole
- There's No Art to Find the Mind's Construction in the Face
- The Art of the Matter
- Escape Into Danger
- I Have Heard Of Your Paintings Well Enough
- ‘The centuries that divide me shall be undone!’
- But Look; The Morn In Russet Mantle Clad...
- . So Full Of Artless Jealousy Is Guilt
- O! Call Back Yesterday, Bid Time Return!
- The Death of Art
- Epilogue
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Author's Notes
- Novelising City of Death
- Covers Gallery
Other related novels:
- Doctor Who and the Pirate Planet
- Doctor Who and the City of Death
- Doctor Who and Shada
- Resurrection of the Daleks
- Revelation of the Daleks
Background Info
"In 1988, Paul Scoones and Jon Preddle decided to 'fill the gaps' in the Target range of novelisations by writing and publishing adaptations of the un-novelised television stories. Early plans to include the two Troughton Dalek stories in this schedule were abandoned when it became clear that Virgin Books would be publishing these. The first book in the series was a novelisation of Shada by Paul Scoones from Jon Preddle's transcript off a video recording. The pair were credited as co-authors on the first edition, published in March 1989. Later, the full rehearsal scripts for Shada were obtained, from which an entirely new novelisation was written by Paul Scoones and published in October 1991. The second book was The Pirate Planet by David Bishop (later the author of Who Killed Kennedy for Virgin Books). David's book was first published in September 1990 and reprinted in a retyped format in January 1991. July 1992 saw the publication of Revelation of the Daleks by Jon Preddle and City of Death by David Lawrence was published in November of the same year. Over seven years later, a fifth book, Resurrection of the Daleks, by Paul Scoones, was published in January 2000, completing the last of the 'gaps' in the Target novelisations.
These were unofficial publications only available to fans, and not for resale. No profit was made from the sale of these books." [1]