Ghost Ship (novel)

 was the fourth Telos Doctor Who novella. It featured the Fourth Doctor. Uniquely for a long-form Doctor Who story this is primarily told from the Doctor's point of view in a first person narrative. This is Keith Topping's only Fourth Doctor novel, however he has written novels featuring the First, Second, Third, Fifth and Seventh Doctors.

Publisher's summary
Perhaps sensing the Fourth Doctor's deepening mood of introspective melancholy, the TARDIS lands in the most haunted place on Earth, the luxury ocean liner the Queen Mary on its way from Southampton to New York in the year 1963.

But why do ghosts from the past, the present, and perhaps even the future, seek out the Doctor? What appalling secret is hidden in Cabin 672?

And will the Doctor be able to preserve his sanity as he struggles to save the lives of the passengers against mighty forces which even he does not fully understand?

Plot
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Characters

 * Fourth Doctor
 * Simpkins
 * Miss Lamb
 * Bryce
 * Peter Osbourne

The Doctor

 * The Doctor is mistaken for Doctor Svengali; Master of Mesmerism, Prestidigitation, Chicanery and Sleight-of-hand.

Locations

 * Auderly House is mentioned.

TARDIS

 * The Doctor uses the TARDIS Fast Return Switch.

Continuity

 * The Doctor is still brooding after the events of DW: The Deadly Assassin and travels without a companion, placing this likely between that serial and DW: The Face of Evil.

Timeline

 * Ghost Ship occurs right after: DW: The Deadly Assassin
 * Ghost Ship occurs before: ST: Ode to Joy