Blood Harvest (novel)

 was the twenty-eighth New Adventures novel. It featured the Seventh Doctor, Ace, Bernice Summerfield and Romana II. It also featured a return of several characters and the planet seen in the 1980 television story State of Decay.

Events in this novel lead to PROSE: Goth Opera, in order to draw attention to the newly-launched Virgin Missing Adventures line of original novels featuring past Doctors.

Publisher's summary

 * "Doc's peddling bootleg liquor in an illegal speakeasy. You’re carrying a gun for him, Ace - which makes you no better than any other gun-moll."

Dekker is a private eye; an honest one. But when Al Capone hires him to investigate a new joint called ‘Doc's’, he knows this is one job he can’t refuse. And just why are the Doctor and Ace selling illegal booze in a town full of murderous gangsters?

Meanwhile, Bernice has been abandoned on a vampire-infested planet outside normal space. There she meets a mysterious stranger called Romanadvoratrelundar -- and discovers an ancient and malevolent power, linking 1929 Chicago with a lair of immortal evil.

The consequences of this story are inextricably linked to events in the Doctor’s past.

Chapter Titles

 * Prologue
 * 1) The Big Fellow
 * 2) Doc's Place
 * 3) Connections
 * 4) The Village and the Tower
 * 5) Vampire
 * 6) The Invitation
 * 7) The Attack
 * 8) His Honour The Mayor
 * 9) The Meeting
 * 10) The Revenant
 * 11) Resistance
 * 12) Conference
 * 13) Death Trail
 * 14) Trackdown
 * 15) The Arrest
 * 16) Summit of Death
 * 17) Flight
 * 18) Private Investigations
 * 19) The Trail
 * 20) Rescue
 * 21) The Battle
 * 22) Sargon's Castle
 * 23) Vampire History
 * 24) The Quarry
 * 25) Crack-Down
 * 26) Farewell Party
 * 27) Escape to Danger
 * 28) Gallifrey
 * 29) The Three
 * 30) Rassilon
 * 31) Sweet Home Chicago
 * Epilogue

Plot
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Characters

 * Seventh Doctor
 * Ace
 * Bernice Summerfield
 * Romana
 * Al Capone
 * Tom Dekker
 * Luigi
 * Agonal
 * Zargo (clone)
 * Camilla (clone)
 * Aukon (clone)
 * Borusa
 * Spandrell
 * Flavia
 * Rassilon
 * Magda
 * Fourth Doctor
 * K9
 * Anthony Ruthy
 * Bill Thompson
 * Dennis Reilly
 * Gerda
 * Hymie Weiss
 * Jake Lingle
 * Pete Gusenburg
 * Tony Ricotti
 * Varis
 * Veran

The Doctor

 * The Doctor can play the piano.

Foods and beverages

 * The Doctor brews beer in the TARDIS swimming pool and whiskey in the bath.
 * Bernice has a silver flask with her that has Eridanian Brandy in it.
 * The Doctor served English muffins for breakfast.

Individuals

 * Mobsters call Ace "the lady in black."
 * Ace sleeps with Dekker.
 * Bernice can sing the blues.
 * Events on the planet of the vampires in E-Space don't faze Tom Dekker, but the Doctor still erases bits of his memory.
 * Borusa is freed from imprisonment.

Music

 * The music the Fifth Doctor played on the harp on Gallifrey to access the time scoop is called Rassilon's Lament.

Planets

 * Bernice has visited a bar on Metebelis III.

Politics

 * Bernice sets up a government based on the British system on the planet of the vampires.

Technology

 * The Doctor gives Benny a SPATAB (Spatio-Temporal Alarm Beacon), a homing beacon for the TARDIS.

Time Lords

 * Romana talks about the Doctor's companions like they're amusing pets.
 * The Committee of Three use the Time Scoop.
 * The Committee of Three are: Rath (a Prydonian and Goth's younger sibling), Elar (an Arcalian) and Morin (a Patraxean).


 * Romana meets Ruathadvorophrenaltid.

Continuity

 * This is a sequel to TV: State of Decay and in some ways to TV: The Five Doctors.
 * The Doctor uses his Reichsinspektor General badge, and gives back Spandrell's Gallifreyan Army Knife, both of which appeared in PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus.
 * Dekker reappears in PROSE: Players, in which he meets the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown in London in December 1936. He obliquely refers to the Seventh Doctor and Ace. Peri suggests that he is speaking of one of his future incarnations but the Doctor dismisses this idea out of hand.
 * In what appears to be a redundancy, Borusa is freed from his prison in this story, but his redemption is later depicted differently in PROSE: The Eight Doctors.
 * Ruathadvorophrenaltid makes her first appearance in a brief cameo. She introduces herself as "Ruatha" for short. However in PROSE: Goth Opera, which includes a retelling of the same scene and the subsequent events, she calls herself "Ruath" instead.
 * The Doctor says that "In an authoritarian society, people obey the voice of authority." He also says this in PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus, Deadly Reunion and World Game.