Doctor Who Logo 'Birthright'
by Nigel Robinson
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'I feel like a pawn in a blasted chess game, Ace.' 'I know what you mean. Trouble is, they keep changing the chess-players.'

The TARDIS has died. Stranded in early twentieth-century London, Bernice can only stand and watch as it slowly disintegrates.

In the East End a series of grisly murders has been committed. Is this the work of the ghostly Springheel Jack or, as Bernice suspects something even more sinister?

In a tiny shop in Bloomsbury, the master of a grand order of sorcerers is nearing the end of a seven-hundred year quest for a fabled magic wand.

And on a barren world in the far-distant future the Queen of a dying race pleads for the help of an old hermit named Muldwych, while Ace leads a group of guerrillas in a desperate struggle against their alien oppressors.

These events are related. Perhaps the Doctor knows how. But the Doctor has gone away.


Publication Date:
August 1993

Notes:
*Featuring Benny and Ace

*This story takes place concurrently with 'Iceberg'

*First appearance of Muldwych, the Doctor's 'Merlin' incarnation

*A Virgin Books 'New Adventures' novel

*Also made available as an Audio Adventure from Big Finish Productions in February 1999, but which is apocryphal to the ‘Doctor Who’ timeline