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|image=Deathofart na54.jpg
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|series=[[Virgin New Adventures]]
|series=[[Virgin New Adventures]]
|range = Virgin New Adventures
|number in range = 54
|number= 54
|number= 54
|doctor=Seventh Doctor
|doctor = Seventh Doctor
|companions=  [[Roz Forrester|Roz]],  [[Chris Cwej|Chris]]
|companions=  [[Roz Forrester|Roz]],  [[Chris Cwej|Chris]]
|featuring = [[Charles Dickens]]
|enemy= [[Montague (The Death of Art)|Montague]]
|enemy= [[Montague (The Death of Art)|Montague]]
|setting= {{il|[[London]], [[1845]]|[[Paris]], [[1884]], [[1897]] and [[1995]]}}
|setting= {{il|[[London]], [[1845]]|[[Paris]], [[1884]], [[1897]] and [[1995]]}}
|writer= [[Simon Bucher-Jones]]
|writer= Simon Bucher-Jones
|cover= [[John Sullivan]]
|publisher= Virgin Books
|publisher= Virgin Books
|release date= [[19 September (releases)|19 September]] [[1996 (releases)|1996]]
|release date= 19 September 1996
|format= Paperback Book; 27 Chapters, 276 Pages
|format= Paperback Book;<br/>27 Chapters, 276 Pages
|isbn= ISBN 0-426-20481-6
|isbn= ISBN 0-426-20481-6
|prev= Return of the Living Dad (novel)
|prev= Return of the Living Dad (novel)
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* [[Truthseeker]]
* [[Truthseeker]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
* ''[[The King in Yellow]]'' is mentioned.
* ''[[The King in Yellow]]'' is mentioned.
=== Devices ===
=== Devices ===
* The [[ormolu clock]] is still within the TARDIS.
* The [[ormolu clock]] is still within [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]].


=== The Doctor ===
=== The Doctor ===
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=== Theories and concepts ===
=== Theories and concepts ===
* The [[Sensory Limitation Effect]] is a barrier of scale where events take place over timescales too vast to be meaningful.
* The [[Sensory Limitation Effect]] is a barrier of scale where events take place over timescales too vast to be meaningful.
=== Food and beverages ===
* The Doctor drinks [[wine]].
* Roz stays up all night drinking [[red wine]] with David.


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
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== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* Chris pretends to be the [[Fifth Doctor]], not very successfully, following the events of [[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]''.
* Chris pretends to be the [[Fifth Doctor]], not very successfully, following the events of [[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]''.
* The Doctor saves the partially formed [[Notre Dame de Paris|Notre Dame du Paris]] configuration in the TARDIS for possible later use. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
* The [[Quoth]] later made a minor reappearance in [[PROSE]]: ''[[White Canvas (novel)|White Canvas]]''.


== External links ==
== External links ==

Latest revision as of 19:57, 9 November 2023

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The Death of Art was the fifty-fourth Virgin New Adventures novel. It featured the Seventh Doctor, Chris Cwej and Roz Forrester. It was another in the arc of stories featuring psychic powers.

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

He did not know if his powers could save him until the horses' hooves had crushed his ribs and his heart had stopped beating. After that, it was obvious.

1880's France: the corrupt world of the Third Republic. A clandestine brotherhood is engaged in a desperate internal power struggle; a race of beings seeks to free itself from perpetual oppression; and a rip in time threatens an entire city. The future of Europe is at stake, in a war fought with minds and bodies altered to the limits of human evolution.

Chris finds himself working undercover with a suspicious French gendarme; Roz follows a psychic artist whose talents are attracting the attention of mysterious forces; and the Doctor befriends a shape-shifting member of a terrifying family. And, at the heart of it all, a dark and disturbing injustice is being perpetrated. Only an end to the secret war, and the salvation of an entire race, can prevent Paris from being utterly destroyed.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Devices[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Doctor was once invited to the Rani's 94th birthday party.

The Doctor's items[[edit] | [edit source]]

People[[edit] | [edit source]]

Species[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Time Lords' lives are linear, just in more dimensions.

Sports[[edit] | [edit source]]

Theories and concepts[[edit] | [edit source]]

Food and beverages[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Doctor drinks wine.
  • Roz stays up all night drinking red wine with David.

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • This novel is based on the historical events of the Dreyfus Affair.
  • The novel makes references to the disappearance of the author of The Dynamics of an Asteroid - i.e. Professor James Moriarty, last seen falling off a cliff in Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story The Final Problem.
  • Anton Jarre recalls meeting a Belgian police sergeant who is clearly intended to be a young Hercule Poirot, the detective created by Agatha Christie.
  • The novel makes reference to the events of The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

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