Birthright (novel)

Publisher's Summary
I feel like a pawn in a blasted chess game, Ace.' 'I know what you mean. Trouble is, they keep changing the chess-players.

The TARDIS has died. Stranded in early twentieth-century London, Bernice can only stand and watch as it slowly disintegrates.

In the East End a series of grisly murders has been committed. Is this the work of the ghostly Springheel Jack or, as Bernice suspects something even more sinister?

In a tiny shop in Bloomsbury, the master of a grand order of sorcerers is nearing the end of a seven-hundred year quest for a fabled magic wand.

And on a barren world in the far-distant future the Queen of a dying race pleads for the help of an old hermit named Muldwych, while Ace leads a group of guerrillas in a desperate struggle against their alien oppressors.

These events are related. Perhaps the Doctor knows how. But the Doctor has gone away.

Characters
Ace
 * Gets stuck in 22,000.

Bernice Summerfield
 * Benny gets stuck in 1909.
 * Benny can't read Cyrillic.
 * She gets the flu.

the Charrl

Queen Ch'tizz

Muldwych

Jared Khan
 * Born 700 years ago.

Margret Waterfield
 * Is Edward Waterfield's sister.
 * Is murdered by Kahn's thugs.

Muldwych
 * Is most likely the 'Merlin' incarnation of the Doctor.
 * Got stranded on Ant'kon for 1000 years.

Continuity

 * This novel runs parallel with the events of Iceberg, with the Doctor being absent for the majority of Birthright.


 * The Charrl and Muldwych make an appearance in Happy Endings.


 * The Charrl are to said to have created the 300 (of the 700) wonders of the universe, first mentioned in DW: Death to the Daleks.