The Haunted Wagon Train

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The Haunted Wagon Train
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Author Colin Brake
Series Doctor Who book:
Decide Your Destiny
Release number
8
SubjectFeaturing:
Tenth Doctor
Martha
Publisher BBC Books
Publication date
4 October 2007
Pages128
ISBN 978-1-4059-0380-6
Preceded by Dark Planet  
Followed by Lost Luggage  

The Haunted Wagon Train is a BBC Books adventure book written by Colin Brake and is based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who . It features the Tenth Doctor and Martha.

Contents

This is part of the Decide Your Destiny series which makes you choose what happens in the books.

Continuity

This book was originally scheduled to be followed by Frozen Earth, but that book was replaced by Lost Luggage.

Reception

As with Colin Brake's two previous Decide Your Destiny books ( The Spaceship Graveyard and The Time Crocodile ), The Haunted Wagon Train has received some negative reviews. [1]

It was the final book in a second set of four, which were successful enough to allow the range to continue.

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References

  1. ""Doctor Who - Decide Your Destiny: The Haunted Wagon Train" by Colin Brake". My Cultural Experience. 18 June 2008.