The Many Hands (novel)

The Many Hands was the eighteenth Tenth Doctor novel released.

Publisher's summary
Edinburgh, 1759.

The Nor' Loch is being filled in. If you ask the soldiers there, they'll tell you it's a stinking cesspool that the city can do without. But that doesn't explain why the workers won't go near the place without an armed guard.

That doesn't explain why they whisper stories about the loch giving up its dead, about the minister who walked into his church twelve years after he died.

It doesn't explain why, as they work, they whisper about a man called the Doctor. And about the many hands of Alexander Monro.

Plot
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Characters

 * Tenth Doctor
 * Martha Jones
 * Katherine Monro
 * Alexander Monro
 * McAllister
 * Benjamin Franklin
 * Arthur King
 * John Monro
 * Gordon Yarwood
 * Neil McVicar
 * Howkins
 * Onk Ndell Kith
 * John Connolly
 * Gordy
 * Mac
 * Farr
 * Craig
 * Ernest Wright

Continuity

 * The Doctor ponders whether the entities possessing the dead are Gelth. (TV: The Unquiet Dead)
 * The Slitheen family are mentioned. They previously appeared in TV: The Lost Boy.
 * Martha refers to "alien witches". (TV: The Shakespeare Code)

Audio release

 * An abridged reading of the story was released as an audiobook on 2x CD read by David Troughton.
 * This audiobook was released in a box set along with Martha in the Mirror and Snowglobe 7, under the collective title New Adventures.