The City of the Dead (novel)

The City of the Dead was the forty-ninth novel in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Lloyd Rose, released 3 September 2001 and featured the Eighth Doctor, Fitz Kreiner and Anji Kapoor.

Publisher's summary
''“Nothing can get into the TARDIS,” the Doctor whispered. Then he realised that Nothing had.''

New Orleans, the early 21st century. A dealer in morbid artefacts has been murdered. A charm carved from human bone is missing. An old plantation, miles from any water, has been destroyed by a tidal wave.

Anji goes dancing. Fitz goes grave-robbing. The Doctor attracts the interest of a homicide detective and the enmity of a would-be magician. He wants to find out the secret of the redneck thief and his blind wife. He'd like to help the crippled curator of a museum of magic. He's trying to refuse politely the request of a crazy young artist that he pose naked with the man's wife.

Most of all, he needs to figure out what all of them have to do with the Void that is hunting him down.

Before it catches him.

Plot
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Characters

 * The Eighth Doctor
 * Fitz Kreiner
 * Anji Kapoor
 * Jonas Rust
 * Vernon Flood
 * Teddy Acree
 * Jack Dupre
 * Flood
 * Laura Ridgepath
 * Maurice Chickley
 * Pierre Bal
 * Swan Acree
 * Morgan Thales

Worldbuilding

 * The Doctor briefly remembers having a dark-haired granddaughter and a dark-haired lover before the memory escapes him once more. He also has the impression that he travelled once with a teenager girl.
 * The Doctor once had sessions with Sigmund Freud.
 * Anne Rice was holding a fundraiser at the end of the month.
 * Sunnydale was mentioned.
 * The Doctor tells Fitz and Anji that the nearest airport is in Albany.

Continuity

 * Anji sees the Doctor's model train set in the TARDIS. (PROSE: Model Train Set)
 * When he sees the Seventh Doctor in his nightmares, the Doctor vaguely recalls having seen him at a funfair. (PROSE: Endgame)
 * The Doctor mentions Graham Greene. (PROSE: The Turing Test)
 * Teddy states that the Doctor has "destroyed millions and killed himself twice". The "destroyed millions" likely refers to the Doctor's role in the destruction of the Silurian Earth (PROSE: Blood Heat) and Gallifrey, (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell) and the times when he killed himself most likely refers to the regenerations of the Second and Fifth Doctors, as these Doctors essentially chose to sacrifice their lives for the sake of others, the Second drawing the attention of the Time Lords to end the War Games (TV: The War Games) and the Fifth choosing to give the antidote to Peri rather than keep it for himself (TV: The Caves of Androzani)