The Many Hands (novel)

The Many Hands (novel)

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The Many Hands was the eighteenth Tenth Doctor novel to be released.

	[[doctor::Tenth Doctor]]
	Martha Jones
	Onk Ndell Kith
	Edinburgh, 1759
	[[publisher::BBC Books]]
	Dale Smith
	24
	10th April 2008
	Hardcover, 244 pages
	ISBN 978-1-846-07422-6

Publisher's summary

Edinburgh, 1759.

The Nor' Loch is being filled in. If you ask the soldiers there, they'll tell you it's a stinking cesspool that the city can do without. But that doesn't explain why the workers won't go near the place without an armed guard.

That doesn't explain why they whisper stories about the loch giving up its dead, about the minister who walked into his church twelve years after he died.

It doesn't explain why, as they work, they whisper about a man called the Doctor. And about the many hands of Alexander Monro.

Characters

• The Doctor
• Martha Jones
• Katherine Monro
• Alexander Monro
• McAllister
• Benjamin Franklin
• Arthur King
• John Monro
• Yarwood
• McVicar
• Howkins
• Onk Ndell Kith

Notes

• The Many Hands was also released as a paperback book in a collection, which also included paperback versions of NSA: Shining Darkness and NSA: Prisoner of the Daleks.

Continuity

• The Doctor states he knew someone who fought at Culloden - his companion, Jamie McCrimmon.

References

• The Doctor ponders whether the entities possessing the dead are Gelth. The Gelth appeared in DW: The Unquiet Dead.
• The Slitheen family are mentioned. They previously appeared in SJA: The Lost Boy.
• The Doctor tells Martha not to be offended if the holograms in the TARDIS call her Rose.
• Martha refers to "alien witches". (DW: The Shakespeare Code)

Timeline

• This story occurs after NSA: Snowglobe 7
• This story occurs before DW: Blink

Audio release

• The story was released as an audiobook on 2x CD read by David Troughton.