Ghost Ship (novel)

Ghost Ship
Doctor:	[[doctor::Fourth Doctor]]
Main setting:	Earth, The Queen Mary, sailing from Southampton to New York City, October, 1963
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Telos Publishing]]
Writer:	Keith Topping
Release details
Release number:	4
Release date:	22nd August 2002
Format:	Hardback Book, ? Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 1-903889-08-1 (Standard Edition) ISBN 1-903889-09-X (Deluxe Edition) ISBN 1-903889-32-4 (Paperback Edition)

Publisher's summary

Perhaps sensing the Doctor's deepening mood of introspective melancholy, the TARDIS lands in the most haunted place on Earth, the luxury ocean liner the Queen Mary on its way from Southampton to New York in the year 1963.

But why do ghosts from the past, the present, and perhaps even the future, seek out the Doctor? What appalling secret is hidden in Cabin 672?

And will the Doctor be able to preserve his sanity as he struggles to save the lives of the passengers against mighty forces which even he does not fully understand?

Characters

• Fourth Doctor
• Simpkins
• Miss Lamb
• Bryce
• Peter Osbourne

References

• The Doctor uses the TARDIS Fast Return Switch.
• Auderly House is mentioned.
• The Doctor is mistaken for Doctor Svengali; Master of Mesmerism, Prestidigitation, Chicanery and Sleight-of-hand.

Notes

• Much of the story is written in first person narrative from the Doctor's point of view.

Continuity

• The Doctor is still brooding after the events of DW: The Deadly Assassin and travels without a companion, placing this likely between that serial and DW: The Face of Evil.

Timeline

• Ghost Ship occurs after: DW: The Deadly Assassin
• Ghost Ship occurs before: ST: Ode to Joy

External links

• Telos.co.uk page for Ghost Ship
• Ghost Ship at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: Ghost Ship at The Whoniverse