Newbury & Hobbes (series)

Newbury & Hobbes was a series of steampunk detective prose stories (comprising novels and short stories) written by George Mann. Although not a Doctor Who spin-off, the series included a number of crossovers with the DWU. The series included six novels (The Affinity Bridge, The Osiris Ritual, The Immorality Engine, The Executioner's Heart, The Revenant Express and The Albion Initiative) as well as anthologies of short stories, including The Casebook of Newbury & Hobbes.

Premise
The series followed the adventures of the eponymous Maurice Newbury and Veronica Hobbes. The series took place in a unique status-quo with a steampunk bent, shown in Paradox Lost to be one valid timeline of N-Space.

Connections with the DWU
Although the characters of Newbury and Hobbes debuted outside the DWU, and as such the series cannot be considered a spin-off as we on this Wiki define the term, Mann viewed his DWU work as being part of the same universe as Newbury & Hobbes. As such, many Newbury & Hobbes stories stories became de-facto crossovers with Doctor Who as they featured further adventures from Archibald Angelchrist, who first appeared in the BBC New Series Adventures story Paradox Lost, appeared as a main character in The Executioner's Heart and featured in several short stories in The Casebook of Newbury & Hobbes. The Cabal of the Horned Beast, a villainous cult who made appearances in the Time Hunter stories The Severed Man and Child of Time, acted as the main antagonists in The Executioner's Heart and The Revenant Express. Peter Rutherford, who was created for Mann's short story The Maharajah’s Star and later appeared in his Ghost series, also appeared throughout the The Casebook of Newbury & Hobbes.

Newbury and Hobbes themselves appeared in the Iris Wildthyme short story Party Fears Two.