Blood Harvest (novel)

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.

Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Can play the piano.
 * Brews beer in the TARDIS swimming pool and whiskey in the bath.
 * Ace
 * Shags Dekker.
 * Mobsters call Ace the lady in black.
 * Bernice Summerfield
 * Sets up a government based on the British system on the planet of the vampires.
 * Can sing the blues.
 * Romana
 * Talks about the Doctor's companions like they're amusing pets.
 * Tom Dekker
 * Events on the planet of the vampires doesn't faze him, but the Doctor still erases bits of his memory.
 * Agonal
 * Zargo (clone)
 * Camilla (clone)
 * Aukon (clone)
 * Borusa
 * Freed from imprisonment.

Continuity

 * This is a sequel to DW: State of Decay and in some ways to DW: The Five Doctors.
 * Events in this novel lead to MA: Goth Opera, and was intended to help launch the Virgin Missing Adventures line of original novels featuring past Doctors.
 * The Doctor gives Spandrell back his Gallifreyan Army Knife, mentioned in Timewyrm: Exodus.
 * Dekker reappears in PDA: Players.
 * In what appears to be a redundancy, Borusa is freed from his prison in this story although Borusa's redemption had already been depicted in The Eight Doctors.