The Romance of Crime
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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 and K-9 |
| Set in | Period between The Creature from the Pit and The 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 by Gareth Roberts and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Fourth Doctor, Romana II and K-9. It takes place directly before the Missing Adventure The English Way of Death, also by Roberts.
The title is a quotation from the Morrissey song "Sister I'm a Poet".[1]
Plot[edit]
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?
Audio adaptation[edit]
Big Finish Productions, an audio production company based in the UK, released an audio adaptation in January 2015, starring Tom Baker and Lalla Ward with John Leeson.[2]