The Sands of Time (novel)

The Sands of Time was the twenty-second novel in the Virgin Missing Adventures series.

Publisher's summary

 * "If Sutekh had escaped, no power in the universe could have stopped him wreaking havoc and destruction. This time, it’s worse."

Arriving in Victorian London, the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan run straight into trouble: Nyssa is kidnapped in the British Museum by Egyptian religious fanatics; the Doctor and Tegan are greeted by a stranger who knows more about them than he should and invited to a very strange party.

Why are rooms already booked for the Doctor at the Savoy? How can Lord Kenilworth’s butler Atkins be in Egypt and London at the same time? What is the history of the ancient mummy to be unwrapped at Kenilworth’s house? And what has all this got to do with Nyssa?

The Doctor’s quest for answers leads him across continents and time as an ancient Egyptian prophecy threatens 1990s England. While the Doctor attempts to unravel the plans of the mysterious Sadan Rassul, mummies stalk the night and an ancient terror stirs in its tomb.

Plot
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Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Tegan Jovanka
 * Nyssa
 * Chosen as the host for Nepthys


 * Lady Ann Cranleigh
 * Lord Kenilworth
 * Atkins
 * Sadan Rassul
 * Nephthys
 * Released when the canopic jar containing her reasoning was broken while robbers were plundering her pyramid.


 * Shabti
 * Aubrey Prior
 * James Norris
 * Vanessa Prior

Continuity

 * This is a sequel to DW: Pyramids of Mars.
 * Tegan tells the Doctor that her sense of adventure died in Amsterdam. (DW: Arc of Infinity)
 * The Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan first met Ann Cranleigh (neé Talbot) in Cranleigh Hall in Oxfordshire on 11 June 1925. (DW: Black Orchid)

Timeline

 * The Sands of Time occurs after PDA: Zeta Major
 * The Sands of Time occurs before DWAN: Danger Down Below