Blood Harvest (novel)

Blood Harvest
Doctor:	[[doctor::Seventh Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Ace, Benny
Main enemy:	Agonal
Main setting:	Earth, USA, Chicago, 1929 Planet of the Vammpires Gallifrey
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Virgin Books]]
Writer:	Terrance Dicks
Release details
Release number:	28
Release date:	July 1994
Format:	Paperback Book, 287 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0426204174

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.

Characters

• The Doctor
  • Can play the piano.
  • Brews beer in the TARDIS swimming pool and whiskey in the bath.
• Ace
  • Shags Dekker.
  • Mobsters call Ace the lady in black.
• Bernice Summerfield
  • Sets up a government based on the British system on the planet of the vampires.
  • Can sing the blues.
• Romana
  • Talks about the Doctor's companions like they're amusing pets.
• Tom Dekker
  • Events on the planet of the vampires doesn't faze him, but the Doctor still erases bits of his memory.
• Agonal
• Zargo (clone)
• Camilla (clone)
• Aukon (clone)
• Borusa
  • Freed from imprisonment.

References

• The Doctor gives Benny a SPATAB (Spatio-Temporal Alarm Beacon), it's a homing beacon for the TARDIS.

• It's revealed the music the Fifth Doctor played on the Harp on Gallifrey is called Rassilon's Lament.

• Bernice has visited a bar on Metebelis III.

• Romana meets Ruathadvorophrenaltid.

• The Commitee of Three use the Time Scoop.

• The Comittee of Three are: Rath (a Prydonian and Goth's younger sibling), Elar (an Arcalian) and Morin (a Patraxean).

Notes

to be added

Continuity

• This is a sequel to DW: State of Decay and in some ways to DW: The Five Doctors.
• Events in this novel lead to MA: Goth Opera, and was intended to help launch the Virgin Missing Adventures line of original novels featuring past Doctors.
• The Doctor gives Spandrell back his Gallifreyan Army Knife, mentioned in Timewyrm: Exodus.
• Dekker reappears in PDA: Players.
• In what appears to be a redundancy, Borusa is freed from his prison in this story although Borusa's redemption had already been depicted in The Eight Doctors.

External Links

• The Doctor Who Reference Guide detailed synopsis of Blood Harvest
• The Whoniverse Discontinuity Guide - Blood Harvest
• Prelude to Blood Harvest as published in DWM #214