Island of Death (novel)

Island of Death
Doctor:	[[doctor::Third Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Sarah Jane Smith, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Main enemy:	The Skang
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::BBC Books]]
Writer:	Barry Letts
Release details
Release number:	71
Release date:	July 2005
Format:	Paperback Book, 281 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-563-48631-7
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You may be looking for the unrelated Island of Death on the planet Dulkis, or Stella Island, this novel's titular "island of death".

Publisher's summary

"He would learn nothing from the internal organs - and for a very good reason: there was nothing there. The dead girl's body was literally just skin and bone."

A New Age cult worships a hideous god - or is it a demon? - called the Skang. What possible connection can it have with the mysterious corpse on Hampstead Heath?

Sarah Jane Smith enlists the help of the Third Doctor and the Brigadier, and their investigations take them halfway across the world, to a remote island that has been turned into a paradise for the followers of the cult.

But the island is not what it seems, and neither is the Skang itself; and the Doctor and his companions are faced with the task of saving not only its devotees but the whole of mankind from a loathsome death.

Characters

• The Doctor

• Uses the phrase "two shakes of a sluggerlug's tail".

• Sarah Jane Smith

• Lives in an attic bedsit near Hampstead Heath.
• Sarah's father is from Liverpool.

• Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

• Is an only child.

References

Anatomy and physiology

• Regeneration causes unpredictable gaps in memory.

Biology

• A sneg is a kind of hairy newt.
• A flubble is a Gallifreyan animal resembling a small-nosed, six-legged koala.
• A Schlenk Blossom is a type of Gallifreyan flower.

Foods and beverages

• The Doctor and Sarah drink hot rum toddies after being rescued at sea.
• The Doctor also drinks port.
• The Brigadier drinks Scotch while he's on the plane to Bombay.

Individuals

• The Doctor has met Charles Darwin.

UNIT

• Most of the men under the Brigadier's command at UNIT are ex-SAS professionals.

Notes

to be added

Continuity

• Sarah wrote an article on Spaceworld, which appeared in BBCR: The Paradise of Death.

Timeline

• Island of Death occurs after PDA: Amorality Tale
• Island of Death occurs before ST: The Lampblack Wars

External links

• Island of Death at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: Island of Death at The Whoniverse