Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Doomsday Manuscript (novel)

Publisher's summary
The Doomsday Manuscript is the key to finding the Lost Tomb of Rablev and, legend has it, if the tomb is ever opened, the world will end. With the party at the Braxiatel Collection (home to one half of the Doomsday Manuscript) to celebrate the new millennium underway, Benny finds herself drawn into a web of mystery and intrigue that starts with death and gets more serious at every stage. Can she find the second half of the Doomsday Manuscript before it falls into the wrong hands?

Then there's the Fifth Axis, a callous force which assimilates territories and acquires art treasures and other archaeological finds, who are very interested in Kasagrad -- the last neutral planet in the Assimilated Territories. Strategically vital and protected from the Fifth Axis by its impenetrable defence systems, will Benny find the Lost Tomb there? And can she squeeze in another drink at "Piccolini's" -- favourite haunt of black marketeers, spies, counterfeiters, Fifth Axis officers, and desperate archaeologists -- before the end of the world?

Characters

 * Bernice Summerfield
 * Benny's birthday is 21st June.


 * Irving Braxiatel


 * Kolonel Daglan Straklant


 * Joseph


 * Adrian Wall
 * Is Killoran
 * Head of construction at the Braxiatel Collection.
 * Adrian Wall isn't his real name (as that's practically unpronounceable for humanoids).
 * He's about 8 feet tall.


 * Ms Jones
 * Head of administration at the Braxiatel Collection.
 * Is fond of Wolsey.


 * Mr Crofton
 * The Braxiatel Collection's groundskeeper.


 * Wolsey
 * Has his paw broken by Daglan Straklant.
 * Has his paw fixed by Ms Jones with genetic binding ointment.


 * Broderick Naismith
 * Chief Publicity Relations Officer at the Braxiatel Collection.
 * No one's ever met him, aside from Irving Braxiatel.

Continuity

 * Benny stands in awe in Braxiatel's Garden of Whispers, not for the first time, as this is where she first met Braxiatel in NA: Theatre of War (however this has occurred for Bernice, but not for Braxiatel).
 * The Braxiatel Collection was first mentioned in DW: City of Death.

Timeline

 * The Doomsday Manuscript occurs after: BFBS: The Dead Men Diaries
 * The Doomsday Manuscript occurs before:BFBS: The Secret of Cassandra