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The Man in the Velvet Mask
Series:	Doctor Who - Virgin Missing Adventures
Release Number:	19
Doctor:	First Doctor
Companions:	Dodo
Enemy:	Minski
Setting:	Alternate Paris: July, 1804
Author:	Daniel O'Mahony
Publisher:	Virgin Books
Publication:	February, 1996
Format:	Paperback Book, 250 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-426-20488-3
Previous Story:	Downtime
Following Story:	The English Way of Death

Publisher's Summary

'The triumph of virtue. The misfortunes of vice. Who said the play had to be like the book?'

24 Messidor, XXII: the TARDIS has landed in post-revolutionary France, or so it appears. But the futuristic structure of the New Bastille towers over a twisted version of Paris. And First Deputy Minski, adopted son of the infamous Marquis de Sade, presides over a reign of terror that has yet to end.

Revolutionary soldiers arrest an ailing Doctor as a curfew breaker. Dodo is recruited by a band of wandering players whose intentions are less than pure. Deep in the dungeons of the Bastille, Prisoner 6 tries desperately to remember who he is. And outside time and space, a gathering of aliens watch in horror as their greatest experiment goes catastrophically wrong.

Characters

• The Doctor
• Dodo Chaplet
• Minski

References

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Notes

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Continuity

• According to the novel, Time Lords grow their second heart after their first regeneration (an attempt to rectify the implication in DW: The Edge of Destruction that the First Doctor had only a single heart). This notion has yet to be supported by any televised episode, with two episodes, DW: The Mind of Evil and DW: The Christmas Invasion, suggesting that one of a Time Lord's hearts can stop due to trauma or illness, and another, DW: The Doctor's Daughter, possibly contradicting it by showing that Jenny was born with two hearts.

Timeline

• The Man in the Velvet Mask occurs after VD: Tarnished Image
• The Man in the Velvet Mask occurs before ST: There are Fairies at the Bottom of the Garden

External Links

• Doctor Who Reference Guide - Detailed Synopsis - The Man in the Velvet Mask
• The Whoniverse - The Discontinuity Guide to: The Man in the Velvet Mask