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|name= Blood Harvest
|name= Blood Harvest
|image= NA028 bloodharvest.jpg
|image= NA028 bloodharvest.jpg
|series=[[Virgin New Adventures]]  
|series=[[Virgin New Adventures]]
|number= 28  
|number= 28
|doctor=Seventh Doctor  
|doctor=Seventh Doctor
|companions= [[Ace]], [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]]  
|companions= [[Ace]], [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]]
|enemy= [[Agonal]]  
|enemy= [[Agonal]]
|setting= {{il|[[Chicago]], [[1929]]|[[vampire planet]], [[E-Space]]|[[Gallifrey]]}}
|setting= {{il|[[Chicago]], [[1929]]|[[vampire planet]], [[E-Space]]|[[Gallifrey]]}}
|writer= [[Terrance Dicks]]  
|writer= [[Terrance Dicks]]
|publisher= Virgin Books  
|publisher= Virgin Books
|release date= [[21 July (releases)|21 July]] [[1994 (releases)|1994]]  
|release date= [[21 July (releases)|21 July]] [[1994 (releases)|1994]]
|format= Paperback Book; 33 Chapters, 287 Pages  
|format= Paperback Book; 33 Chapters, 287 Pages
|isbn= ISBN 0-426-20417-4  
|isbn= ISBN 0-426-20417-4
|prev= All-Consuming Fire (novel)  
|prev= All-Consuming Fire (novel)
|next= Strange England (novel)}}
|next= Strange England (novel)}}
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the twenty-eighth [[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]] novel. It featured the [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Ace]], [[Bernice Summerfield]] and [[Romana II]]. It also featured a return of several characters and the "[[vampire planet]]" seen in the 1980 television story ''[[State of Decay]]''.
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the twenty-eighth [[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]] novel. It featured the [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Ace]], [[Bernice Summerfield]] and [[Romana II]]. It also featured a return of several characters and the "[[vampire planet]]" seen in the 1980 television story ''[[State of Decay]]''.

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Blood Harvest was the twenty-eighth New Adventures novel. It featured the Seventh Doctor, Ace, Bernice Summerfield and Romana II. It also featured a return of several characters and the "vampire planet" seen in the 1980 television story State of Decay.

Events in this novel lead to the novel Goth Opera, in order to draw attention to the newly-launched Virgin Missing Adventures line of original novels featuring past Doctors.

Publisher's summary

"Doc's peddling bootleg liquor in an illegal speakeasy. You’re carrying a gun for him, Ace - which makes you no better than any other gun-moll."

Dekker is a private eye, an honest one. But when Al Capone hires him to investigate a new joint called "Doc's", he knows this is one job he can't refuse. And just why are the Doctor and Ace selling illegal booze in a town full of murderous gangsters?

Meanwhile, Bernice has been abandoned on a vampire-infested planet outside normal space. There she meets a mysterious stranger called Romanadvoratrelundar — and discovers an ancient and malevolent power, linking 1929 Chicago with a lair of immortal evil.

The consequences of this story are inextricably linked to events in the Doctor’s past.

Plot

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Characters

References

The Doctor

  • The Doctor can play the piano.

Foods and beverages

Individuals

  • Mobsters call Ace "the lady in black."
  • Ace sleeps with Dekker.
  • Events on the planet of the vampires in E-Space don't faze Tom Dekker, but the Doctor still erases bits of his memory.
  • Borusa is freed from imprisonment.
  • William McSwiggin was murdered.

Music

Planets

Technology

Time Lords

Notes

  • A prelude to this novel was published in DWM 214.
  • The illustration for the cover details a corridor taken from the movie Alien as reference.
  • Although the St. Valentine's Day Massacre does indeed take place in 1929 as described in the novel's publisher description, in real life other events in the novel (the shooting at the Hawthorne Hotel and the death of Hymie Weiss) took place in autumn 1926.

Continuity

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