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| Author | Gareth Roberts |
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| Series | Doctor Who book: Virgin Missing Adventures |
Release number | 28 |
| Subject | Featuring: First Doctor Ian,Barbara,Vicki |
| Set in | Period between The Space Museum andThe Chase (Doctor Who)[1][2] |
| Publisher | Virgin Books |
Publication date | November 1996 |
| Pages | 287 |
| ISBN | 0-426-20488-3 |
| Preceded by | Speed of Flight |
| Followed by | Cold Fusion |
The Plotters is an original novel written byGareth Roberts and based on the long-running Britishscience fiction television seriesDoctor Who. It features theFirst Doctor,Ian,Barbara andVicki.
The TARDIS materialises in London, the date November 1605. While Ian and Barbara set off for the Globe Theatre, Vicki accompanies the Doctor on a mysterious mission to the court of King James. What is the link between the King's adviser, Robert Cecil, with the hooded figure called 'the Spaniard'? Why is the Doctor so anxious to observe the translation of the Bible? And what is brewing in the cellars of the Houses of Parliament?