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, ? 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 State of Decay and in some ways to The Five Doctors.
• Events in this novel lead to Goth Opera.
• The Doctor gives Spandrell back hi Gallifreyan Army Knife, mentioned in Timewyrm: Exodus.
• Dekker reappears in Players.

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