The Man in the Velvet Mask (novel)

The Man in the Velvet Mask was the nineteenth novel in the Virgin Missing Adventures series. It featured the First Doctor and Dodo Chaplet.

Publisher's summary

 * "The triumph of virtue. The misfortunes of vice. Who said the play had to be like the book?"

24 Messidor, XXII: the TARDIS has landed in post-revolutionary France, or so it appears. But the futuristic structure of the New Bastille towers over a twisted version of Paris. And First Deputy Minski, adopted son of the infamous Marquis de Sade, presides over a reign of terror that has yet to end.

Revolutionary soldiers arrest an ailing Doctor as a curfew breaker. Dodo is recruited by a band of wandering players whose intentions are less than pure. Deep in the dungeons of the Bastille, Prisoner 6 tries desperately to remember who he is. And outside time and space, a gathering of aliens watch in horror as their greatest experiment goes catastrophically wrong.

Plot
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Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Dodo Chaplet
 * Prisoner 6
 * Minski
 * Fantomas
 * The Pageant
 * Bressac
 * Garce
 * Eging

The Doctor

 * The Doctor feels the TARDIS "calling to him" and recalls her having done so previously when he had lost her in the fourth universe and during the long months that he had been separated from her in China in 1289.

Locations

 * Earth is referred to as 'Planet D02RL in Mutter's Spiral'.

Time Lords

 * Time Lords grow their second heart after their first regeneration.

Continuity

 * The Doctor mistakenly calls Dodo 'Susan' at one point, and again mentions how similar they look (DW: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve)
 * The Doctor tells Dodo that his time is near (referring to his approaching regeneration in DW: The Tenth Planet), and that he has known it is coming since his latest meeting with the Toymaker (DW: The Celestial Toymaker). He also mentions that he will need the aid of the TARDIS.
 * Steven's recent departure is mentioned twice (DW: The Savages) and Dodo relates the story of his two-year imprisonment (DW: The Chase)
 * Dodo tells Dalville she can play the piano a bit, mentioning 'The Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon' as an example of something she can play (DW: The Gunfighters)
 * The Doctor recalls having been separated from the TARDIS in China (DW: Marco Polo)
 * When encountering aliens, Dodo compares them to the Monoids and Refusians (DW: The Ark)
 * Dodo recalls having seen the Earth explode (DW: The Ark)
 * The Doctor is addressed as a 'lord', but denies this title. Even when confronted with the statement that he was 'noble once but fell from grace', he refuses to acknowledge this.
 * Dodo mentions having once almost killed the entire human race. (DW: The Ark)
 * Dodo predicts she will stop travelling with the Doctor sooner rather than later. (DW: The War Machines)
 * The Doctor feels the TARDIS "calling to him" and recalls her having done so previously when he had lost her in the fourth universe in CC: Quinnis.
 * According to the novel, Time Lords grow their second heart after their first regeneration. This is an attempt to rectify the implication in DW: The Edge of Destruction, that the First Doctor had only a single heart.

Timeline

 * The Man in the Velvet Mask occurs after DW: The Savages
 * The Man in the Velvet Mask occurs before VD: Tarnished Image