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Spiral Scratch
Series:	Doctor Who - BBC Past Doctor Adventures
Release Number:	72
Doctor:	Sixth Doctor
Companions:	Melanie Bush
Enemy:	Monica Lamprey
Setting:
Author:	Gary Russell
Publisher:	BBC Books
Publication:	August 2005
Format:	Paperback Book, ? Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-563-48626-0
Previous Story:	Island of Death
Following Story:	Fear Itself

Publisher's Summary

Carsus: the largest repository of knowledge in the universe -- in any universe, for there is an infinite number of potential universes; or rather, there should be. So why are there now just 117,863? And why, every so often, does another one just wink out of existence?

The Doctor and Mel arrive on Carsus to see the Doctor’s old friend Professor Rummas -- but he has been murdered. Can they solve the mystery of a contracting multiverse, and expose the murderer?

With the ties that bind the Lamprey family to the past, present and future coming unravelled around him, only the Doctor can stop the descent into temporal chaos. But he is lost on Janus 8. And Schyllus. And a twentieth-century Earth where Rome never fell. And...

Characters

• The Doctor
• Melanie Bush
• Monica Lamprey

References

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Notes

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Continuity

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Timeline

• Spiral Scratch occurs after ST: Curtain Call
• Spiral Scratch occurs immediately before: DW: Time and the Rani

External Links

• Doctor Who Reference Guide - Detailed Synopsis - Spiral Scratch
• The Whoniverse - The Discontinuity Guide to: Spiral Scratch