Andy Lane
Virgin Books
Landing in Victorian London, the TARDIS crew is surprised to meet up with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
And so we arrive at the single geekiest thing in the known universe as the Seventh Doctor (along with Ace and Bernice
Summerfield) teams up with Sherlock Holmes and John Watson to combat the
agents of H.P. Lovecraft’s elder gods.
The two groups come together over a set of missing books from the
Vatican’s secret library of banned books, The Library of St. John the
Beheaded.
Thanks to Mycroft and the Diogenes Club (via a cameo from the Third
Doctor, a mention of Kim Newman’s Charles Beauregard character and an
even elder Holmes brother and an alien of his acquaintance) they find
themselves travelling to India in order to stop an invasion of the
alien’s world by nasty brutish humans.
If this all seems a little pat then you’d be correct and things soon
take a turn for the malign as plans within plans are exposed.
Lane has a nice touch. The plot is speedy and he handles the variety
and volume of principles well. The dialogue is spritely, especially
between Bernice and Watson as they flirt with each other. There were
things I didn’t like, primarily the addition of the elder brother, but
they certainly didn’t spoil my enjoyment of the book.
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