The Ruby's Curse (novel)
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The Ruby's Curse was a novel written by Alex Kingston, featuring both River Song and Melody Malone.
Publisher's summary
She's got ice in her heart and a kiss on her lips...
1939, New York. Private Eye, Melody Malone, is hired to find a stolen ruby, the Eye of Horus. The ruby might hold the secret to the location of Cleopatra's tomb - but everyone who comes into contact with it dies. Can Melody escape the ruby's curse?
1939, New York. River Song, author of the Melody Malone Mysteries, is forced to find a reality-altering weapon, the Eye of Horus - but everyone who comes into contact with it dies. River doesn't believe in curses - but is she wrong?
From the top-security confines of Stormcage to the barbarism of first-century Egypt, River battles to find the Eye of Horus before its powers are used to transform the universe. To succeed, she must team up with a most unlikely ally - her own fictional alter ego, Melody. And together they must solve another mystery: Is fiction changing into fact - or is fact changing into fiction?
Plot
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Characters
Dramatis personae
- River Song
- Ventrion
- Death
- Cleopatra
- Caesarion
- Charmian
- Iris
- Julius Caesar
- Cat
- Tomas
- Ezra
- Sukri
- Nebi
- Oba
- Jal
- Seti
- Shenti
- Immi
- Amy Pond
- Rory Williams
- Jack Harkness
- Thirteenth Doctor
Melodramatis personae
- Melody Malone
- Horace P Wallace
- Harry Dearkin
- Phil the Kid
- Calvin Cutling
- Susan Peterson Lee
- Delores Jones
- George Badger Senior
- Mrs Badger
- George Badger Junior
- Ruby Badger
- Edwin Wivenhoe
- Marvin Motson
- Floyd
- Jerry
- Spatz
- Lenny
- Massouda
- Delilah
References
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Notes
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Continuity
- River mentions the time the Doctor lost her parents for ever. (TV: The Angels Take Manhattan)
- River's vortex manipulator is destroyed. (TV: The Husbands of River Song)
- River recalls writing The Angel's Kiss. (PROSE: The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery)
- River mentions that there is no way of asking "Madam, what year is this?" without sounding weird. (TV: Dimensions in Time)
- After River's departure from 1939, Amy plans to take over the writing of the Melody Malone series. (WC: Rory's Story)
- River previously impersonated Cleopatra. (TV: The Pandorica Opens)
- River was raised by the Silence and Madame Kovarian. (TV: Let's Kill Hitler)
Audiobook
This novel was released as an audiobook on 20 May 2021 complete and unabridged by BBC Audio and read by Alex Kingston.
Audiobook cover
External links
- Official The Ruby's Curse page at Penguin Books
- Official The Ruby's Curse audiobook page at Penguin Books
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