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The House That Jack Built was the twelfth release in the BBC Torchwood Novels series.
- You may be looking for the short story.
Publisher's summary
Jackson Leaves: an Edwardian house in Penylan.
Built in 1906, semi-detached, three storeys, spacious, beautifully presented. Left in good condition to Rob and Julia Wallace by Julia's late aunt.
It's an ordinary sort of a house. Except for the way the rooms don't stay in the same places. And the strange man that turns up in the airing cupboard. And the apparitions. And the temporal surges that attract the attentions of Torchwood.
And the fact that the first owner of Jackson Leaves in 1906 was a Captain Jack Harkness...
Plot
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Characters
Worldbuilding
- Danny wears Hugo Boss aftershave.
- Danny remembers the story of Br'er Rabbit and the Tar-Baby.
- Gwen and Rhys visit H&M.
- Andy is on his way to attend an incident at Boots.
- Rhys buys a James Bond boxset.
- Rhys mentions Cluedo and Poirot.
- Ianto references Jeremy Kyle while heading to the suburbs.
- Ianto played with Action Men while growing up.
- Ianto's tie is in a Windsor knot.
Notes
- This book is also available as an ebook from the Amazon Kindle store.
Continuity
- Jack tells Alexander that he "spotted [him] at the hospital the other day", and Alexander remembers the "rampaging hordes of the living dead". (PROSE: Bay of the Dead)
- Gwen says that the scale of their alien encounters have increased with the zombies (PROSE: Bay of the Dead) and people dropping like flies during the Welsh Amateur Operatic Contest. (PROSE: Into the Silence)
- Julia plans on getting an apartmnet in SkyPoint. Gwen advises her against it. (PROSE: SkyPoint)
- Alice Guppy and Charles Gaskell are operatives of Torchwood Cardiff in 1906. (TV: Exit Wounds [+]Loading...["Exit Wounds (TV story)"])
External links
- Official The House That Jack Built page at Penguin Books
- The House That Jack Built at the Doctor Who Reference Guide