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| Author | Gareth Roberts |
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| Series | Doctor Who book: Virgin Missing Adventures |
Release number | 6 |
| Subject | Featuring: Fourth Doctor Romana II andK-9 |
| Set in | Period between The Creature from the Pit andThe English Way of Death |
| Publisher | Virgin Books |
Publication date | January 1995 |
| Pages | 246 |
| ISBN | 0-426-20435-2 |
| Preceded by | State of Change |
| Followed by | The Ghosts of N-Space |
The Romance of Crime is an original novel written byGareth Roberts and based on the long-running Britishscience fiction television seriesDoctor Who. It features theFourth Doctor,Romana II andK-9. It takes place directly before theMissing AdventureThe English Way of Death, also by Roberts.
The title is a quotation from theMorrissey song "Sister I'm a Poet".[1]
The TARDIS brings the Doctor, Romana and K-9 to the Rock of Judgement: a supreme prison built into a rocket-powered asteroid.What is the link between the gallery of artist Menlove Stokes, and the massacre of a survey team on a far off planet? And why is Margo, Chief Of Security, behaving in such an odd manner?
Big Finish Productions, an audio production company based in the UK, released an audio adaptation in January 2015, starringTom Baker andLalla Ward withJohn Leeson.[2]