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Author | Mark Gatiss |
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Cover artist | Peter Elson |
Series | Doctor Who book: Virgin New Adventures |
Release number | 8 |
Subject | Featuring: Seventh Doctor Ace |
Publisher | Virgin Books |
Publication date | August 1992 |
ISBN | 0-426-20376-3 |
Preceded by | Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark |
Followed by | Love and War |
Nightshade is an original novel written by Mark Gatiss and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who . It features the Seventh Doctor and Ace. A prelude to the novel, also penned by Gatiss, appeared in Doctor Who Magazine #190. [1] [2] [3]
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