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|adapted into    = The Romance of Crime (audio story)
|name = The Romance of Crime
|series         = [[Virgin Missing Adventures]]
|series = [[Virgin Missing Adventures]]
|range          = Virgin Missing Adventures
|number = 6
|number in range = 6
|doctor = Fourth Doctor
|number         = 6
|companions = [[Romana II|Romana]], [[K9 Mark II|K9]]
|doctor         = Fourth Doctor
|enemy = [[Xais]], [[Nisbetts]], [[Zy]]
|companions     = [[K9 Mark II]], [[Romana II]]
|setting =  
|enemy           = [[Xais]], [[Pyerpoint]], [[Charlie Nisbett]], [[Eddie Nisbett]]
|writer = [[Gareth Roberts]]
|setting         = [[Rock of Judgement]], [[Planet Eleven]]
|publisher = Virgin Books
|writer         = Gareth Roberts
|release date = [[19 January (releases)|19 January]] [[1995 (releases)|1995]]
|cover          = [[Alister Pearson]]
|format = Paperback Book, 246 Pages
|publisher       = Virgin Books
|isbn = ISBN 0-426-20435-2
|release date   = 19 January 1995
|prev = State of Change (novel)
|format         = Paperback Book;<br/>15 Chapters, 246 Pages
|next = The Ghosts of N-Space (novelisation)
|isbn           = ISBN 0-426-20435-2
}}
|prev           = State of Change (novel)
'''''The Romance of Crime''''' was the sixth novel in the [[Virgin Missing Adventures]] series. It was written by [[Gareth Roberts]]. It featured the [[Fourth Doctor]], [[Romana II]] and [[K9 Mark II]].
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'''''The Romance of Crime''''' was the sixth novel in the ''[[Virgin Missing Adventures]]'' series. It was written by [[Gareth Roberts]] and featured the [[Fourth Doctor]], [[Romana II]] and [[K9 Mark II]].


== Publisher's summary ==
== 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?"
:"How do you kill someone?" asked the Doctor. "Eviscerate them, crush them, reverse their particles. But do the dead always stay dead?"


[[the Doctor's TARDIS|The TARDIS]] brings [[Fourth Doctor|the Doctor]], [[Romana II|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.
[[The Doctor's TARDIS|The TARDIS]] brings [[Fourth Doctor|the Doctor]], [[Romana II|Romana]] and [[K9 Mark II|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 [[Ogron|old enemies]] of the Doctor are aboard the unmarked spaceship making its way towards the Rock?
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 [[Ogron|old enemies]] of the Doctor are aboard the unmarked spaceship making its way towards the Rock?


== Plot ==
== Plot ==
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* [[Menlove Stokes]]
* [[Menlove Stokes]]
* [[Zy]]
* [[Zy]]
* The Hatred of Norms
* [[Charlie Nisbett]]
* [[Nisbett]]
* [[Eddie Nisbett]]
* [[Charlie (The Romance of Crime)|Charlie]]
* [[Pyerpoint|Sentinel]]
* [[Eddie (The Romance of Crime)|Eddie]]
* [[Gjork]]
* [[Sentinel]]
* [[Flarkk]]
* [[Ogron Thug 1]]
* [[Bnorg]]
* [[Ogron Thug 2]]
* [[Jarrigan Voltt]]
* [[Naomi Blakemore]]
* [[Hogan (The Romance of Crime)|Hogan]]
* [[Davis (The Romance of Crime)|Davis]]
* [[Wilkin (The Romance of Crime)|Wilkin]]
 
== Worldbuilding ==
=== Games ===
* The Doctor, [[Romana II|Romana]] and [[K9 Mark II|K9]] play [[Monopoly (game)|Monopoly]].
 
=== The Doctor ===
* The [[Fourth Doctor]] is six foot four inches tall.
* [[The Doctor's scarf]] is twenty-six feet long.


== References ==
=== Foods and beverages ===
''to be added''
* Ogrons drink Rigellian [[Ale]].


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* [[Big Finish Productions]] are to release an audio adaptation of the novel in January 2015 as a four-part story starring [[Tom Baker]] and [[Lalla Ward]] as announced in [[DWM 467]]. This will be released with an audio adaptation of [[Gareth Roberts]] other [[Fourth Doctor]] novel ''[[The English Way of Death (novel)|The English Way of Death]]''.
* This story is set between ''[[The Creature from the Pit (TV story)|The Creature from the Pit]]'' and ''[[Nightmare of Eden (TV story)|Nightmare of Eden]]''.


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* The Doctor refers to activating the TARDIS' [[randomiser]] in order to evade the [[Black Guardian]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor (TV story)|The Armageddon Factor]]'')
* The Doctor refers to activating [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]'s [[randomiser]] in order to evade the [[Black Guardian]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor (TV story)|The Armageddon Factor]]'')


== External links ==
== External links ==
* {{dwrefguide|who_ma06.htm|The Romance of Crime}}
{{dwrefguide|who_ma06.htm|The Romance of Crime}}
* {{whoniverse|MA06.php|The Romance of Crime}}
* {{whoniverse|ma06|The Romance of Crime}}
* [http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/romance.htm The Cloister Library: '''The Romance of Crime''']


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The Romance of Crime was the sixth novel in the Virgin Missing Adventures series. It was written by Gareth Roberts and featured the Fourth Doctor, Romana II and K9 Mark II.

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

"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?

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Games[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

Foods and beverages[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Ogrons drink Rigellian Ale.

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

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