Instruments of Darkness

2001 novel by Gary Russell

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Instruments of Darkness

Author| Gary Russell
Series| Doctor Who book:
Past Doctor Adventures

Release number

| 48
Subject| Featuring:
Sixth Doctor
Mel and Evelyn Smythe.
Set in| Period between
The Trial of a Time Lord and Time and the Rani
Publisher| BBC Books

Publication date

| November 2001
Pages| 287
ISBN| 0-563-53828-7
Preceded by| Dying in the Sun
Followed by| Relative Dementias

Instruments of Darkness is a BBC Books original novel written by Gary Russell and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Sixth Doctor and Mel.

This novel concludes a trilogy concerning the Pale Man and the Irish Twins which began in Russell's The Scales of Injustice and Business Unusual. Evelyn Smythe, the Sixth Doctor's companion from the Big Finish Productions audio plays, also appears.

## External links[edit]

* Instruments of Darkness title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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New Adventures

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* Timewyrm: Genesys
* Timewyrm: Exodus
* Timewyrm: Apocalypse
* Timewyrm: Revelation
* Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible
* Cat's Cradle: Warhead
* Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark
* Nightshade
* The Highest Science
* The Pit
* Lucifer Rising
* White Darkness
* Shadowmind
* Birthright
* Iceberg
* Blood Heat
* The Dimension Riders
* The Left-Handed Hummingbird
* Conundrum
* No Future
* Tragedy Day
* Legacy
* Blood Harvest
* Strange England
* St Anthony's Fire
* Falls the Shadow
* Parasite
* Warlock
* Set Piece
* Infinite Requiem
* Sanctuary
* Human Nature
* Original Sin
* Sky Pirates!
* Zamper
* Toy Soldiers
* Head Games
* The Also People
* Shakedown
* Just War
* Warchild
* Sleepy
* Death and Diplomacy
* Happy Endings
* Christmas on a Rational Planet
* Return of the Living Dad
* The Death of Art
* Damaged Goods
* So Vile a Sin
* Bad Therapy
* Eternity Weeps
* The Room with No Doors
* Lungbarrow
* The Dying Days

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Bernice
Summerfield|

* Oh No It Isn't!
* Ship of Fools
* Down
* Deadfall
* Ghost Devices
* Mean Streets
* Tempest
* Walking to Babylon
* Oblivion
* The Medusa Effect
* Dry Pilgrimage
* The Sword of Forever
* Beige Planet Mars
* Where Angels Fear
* The Mary-Sue Extrusion
* Dead Romance
* Tears of the Oracle
* Return to the Fractured Planet
* The Joy Device
* Twilight of the Gods

Missing Adventures

* Goth Opera
* Evolution
* Venusian Lullaby
* The Crystal Bucephalus
* State of Change
* The Romance of Crime
* The Ghosts of N-Space
* Time of Your Life
* Dancing the Code
* The Menagerie
* System Shock
* The Sorcerer's Apprentice
* Invasion of the Cat-People
* Managra
* Millennial Rites
* The Empire of Glass
* Lords of the Storm
* Downtime
* The Man in the Velvet Mask
* The English Way of Death
* The Eye of the Giant
* The Sands of Time
* Killing Ground
* The Scales of Injustice
* The Shadow of Weng-Chiang
* Twilight of the Gods
* Speed of Flight
* The Plotters
* Cold Fusion
* Burning Heart
* The Dark Path
* The Well-Mannered War

Eighth Doctor Adventures

* The Eight Doctors
* Vampire Science
* The Bodysnatchers
* Genocide
* War of the Daleks
* Kursaal
* Option Lock
* Longest Day
* Legacy of the Daleks
* Dreamstone Moon
* Seeing I
* Placebo Effect
* Vanderdeken's Children
* The Scarlet Empress
* Beltempest
* The Face-Eater
* The Taint
* Demontage
* Revolution Man
* Dominion
* Unnatural History
* Autumn Mist
* Interference – Book One
* Interference – Book Two
* The Blue Angel
* The Taking of Planet 5
* Frontier Worlds
* Parallel 59
* The Shadows of Avalon
* The Fall of Yquatine
* Coldheart
* The Space Age
* The Banquo Legacy
* The Ancestor Cell
* The Burning
* Casualties of War
* The Turing Test
* Endgame
* Father Time
* Escape Velocity
* EarthWorld
* Vanishing Point
* Eater of Wasps
* The Year of Intelligent Tigers
* The Slow Empire
* The City of the Dead
* Grimm Reality
* The Adventuress of Henrietta Street
* Mad Dogs and Englishmen
* Hope
* Anachrophobia
* Trading Futures
* The Book of the Still
* The Crooked World
* History 101
* Camera Obscura
* Time Zero
* The Infinity Race
* The Domino Effect
* Reckless Engineering
* The Last Resort
* Timeless
* Emotional Chemistry
* Sometime Never...
* Halflife
* The Tomorrow Windows
* The Sleep of Reason
* The Deadstone Memorial
* To the Slaughter
* The Gallifrey Chronicles

Past Doctor Adventures

* The Devil Goblins from Neptune
* The Murder Game
* Matrix
* The Roundheads
* The Witch Hunters
* The Infinity Doctors
* Salvation
* The Wages of Sin
* Deep Blue
* Players
* Millennium Shock
* Storm Harvest
* The Final Sanction
* City at World's End
* Divided Loyalties
* Corpse Marker
* Last of the Gaderene
* Tomb of Valdemar
* Verdigris
* Grave Matter
* Heart of TARDIS
* Prime Time
* Imperial Moon
* Festival of Death
* Independence Day
* The King of Terror
* The Quantum Archangel
* Bunker Soldiers
* Rags
* The Shadow in the Glass
* Asylum
* Superior Beings
* Byzantium!
* Bullet Time
* Psi-ence Fiction
* Dying in the Sun
* Instruments of Darkness
* Relative Dementias
* Palace of the Red Sun
* Warmonger
* Ten Little Aliens
* Combat Rock
* The Suns of Caresh
* Heritage
* Fear of the Dark
* Blue Box
* Loving the Alien
* The Colony of Lies
* Wolfsbane
* Deadly Reunion
* Scream of the Shalka
* The Eleventh Tiger
* Synthespians™
* The Algebra of Ice
* The Indestructible Man
* Match of the Day
* Island of Death
* Spiral Scratch
* Fear Itself
* World Game
* The Time Travellers
* Atom Bomb Blues

Novellas

* Time and Relative
* Citadel of Dreams
* Nightdreamers
* Ghost Ship
* Foreign Devils
* Rip Tide
* Wonderland
* Shell Shock
* The Cabinet of Light
* Fallen Gods
* Frayed
* The Eye of the Tyger
* Companion Piece
* Blood and Hope
* The Dalek Factor

New Series Adventures

| Novels|

* Winner Takes All
* The Deviant Strain
* Only Human
* The Stealers of Dreams
* The Feast of the Drowned
* The Resurrection Casket
* The Nightmare of Black Island
* The Art of Destruction
* The Price of Paradise
* Sting of the Zygons
* The Last Dodo
* Wooden Heart
* Forever Autumn
* Sick Building
* Wetworld
* The Pirate Loop
* Peacemaker
* Martha in the Mirror
* Snowglobe 7
* The Many Hands
* Ghosts of India
* The Doctor Trap
* Shining Darkness
* The Story of Martha
* Beautiful Chaos
* The Eyeless
* Judgement of the Judoon
* The Slitheen Excursion
* Prisoner of the Daleks
* The Taking of Chelsea 426
* Autonomy
* The Krillitane Storm
* The Darksmith Legacy
* Apollo 23
* Night of the Humans
* The Forgotten Army
* Nuclear Time
* The King's Dragon
* The Glamour Chase
* The Coming of the Terraphiles
* Dead of Winter
* The Way Through The Woods
* Hunter's Moon
* Touched by an Angel
* Paradox Lost
* The Silent Stars Go By
* The Dalek Generation
* Engines of War
* The Blood Cell
* Silhouette
* The Crawling Terror
* Royal Blood
* Big Bang Generation
* Deep Time

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Novellas|

* I Am a Dalek
* Made of Steel
* Revenge of the Judoon
* The Sontaran Games
* Code of the Krillitanes

Decide Your Destiny|

* The Spaceship Graveyard
* The Time Crocodile
* The Crystal Snare
* War of the Robots
* The Haunted Wagon Train
* Second Skin
* The Dragon King
* The Horror of Howling Hill

Audiobooks|

* Pest Control
* The Forever Trap
* The Nemonite Invasion
* The Rising Night
* The Day of the Troll
* The Last Voyage
* Dead Air
* The Runaway Train
* The Hounds of Artemis

Other

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* Decalog
* Faction Paradox
* Files
* The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery
* The Essential Book of K9

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See also|

* Novelisations
* Audiobooks
* BBC Short Trips
* Big Finish Short Trips
* Torchwood
* The Sarah Jane Adventures Collection

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Novels|

| Doctor Who|

* Legacy
* Invasion of the Cat-People
* The Scales of Injustice
* Business Unusual
* Placebo Effect
* Divided Loyalties
* Instruments of Darkness
* Spiral Scratch
* Beautiful Chaos
* The Glamour Chase
* Big Bang Generation

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Bernice Summerfield|

* Deadfall
* Adorable Illusion

Novelisations|

* Warriors of Kudlak
* The Lost Boy
* The Last Sontaran
* Death of the Doctor

Short fiction|

* "Missing, Part One: Business as Usual"
* "64 Carlysle Street"
* "Countdown to TV Action"
* "A Boy’s Tale"
* "Repercussions..."
* "Echoes"
* "The Report"
* "Do You Dream in Colour"

Audio|

* Minuet in Hell
* Real Time
* He Jests at Scars...
* Zagreus
* The Next Life

Comics|

Cyberspace 3000

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Television

| Season 21|

The Twin Dilemma

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Season 22|

* Attack of the Cybermen
* Vengeance on Varos
* The Mark of the Rani
* The Two Doctors
* Timelash
* Revelation of the Daleks

Season 23|

* The Mysterious Planet / Mindwarp / Terror of the Vervoids / The Ultimate Foe

Minor appearances|

* The Caves of Androzani
* Time and the Rani
* "The Name of the Doctor"
* "The Day of the Doctor"
* "The Power of the Doctor"

See also|

* "A Fix with Sontarans"
* Dimensions in Time

Audio

| The Monthly Adventures|

* The Sirens of Time
* Whispers of Terror
* The Marian Conspiracy
* The Spectre of Lanyon Moor
* The Apocalypse Element
* The Holy Terror
* Bloodtide
* The One Doctor
* ...ish
* The Sandman
* Jubilee
* Doctor Who and the Pirates
* Davros
* The Wormery
* Zagreus
* Arrangements for War
* Medicinal Purposes
* The Juggernauts
* Catch-1782
* Thicker than Water
* Pier Pressure
* Year of the Pig
* I.D. & Urgent Calls
* The Wishing Beast & The Vanity Box
* 100
* The Condemned
* Assassin in the Limelight
* The Doomwood Curse
* Brotherhood of the Daleks
* The Raincloud Man
* City of Spires
* The Wreck of the Titan
* Legend of the Cybermen
* A Town Called Fortune
* The Crimes of Thomas Brewster
* Industrial Evolution
* Recorded Time and Other Stories
* The Curse of Davros
* The Acheron Pulse
* The Brood of Erys
* Scavenger

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The Sixth Doctor Adventures|

* The Maltese Penguin
* Her Final Flight
* Trial of the Valeyard
* The Last Adventure

The Lost Stories|

* The Nightmare Fair
* Mission to Magnus
* The Hollows of Time
* The Ultimate Evil

Other|

* Slipback
* Excelis Rising
* A Town Called Fortune
* The Four Doctors
* Jago & Litefoot
* Trouble in Paradise
* Classic Doctors, New Monsters
* The Tenth Doctor Adventures
* River Song

Books

| Missing Adventures|

* State of Change
* Time of Your Life
* Millennial Rites
* Killing Ground
* Burning Heart

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Past Doctor Adventures|

* Players
* Grave Matter
* The Quantum Archangel
* The Shadow in the Glass
* Instruments of Darkness
* Palace of the Red Sun
* Blue Box
* Synthespians™
* Spiral Scratch

Novellas|

* Shell Shock

Video games

* Doctor Who and the Mines of Terror
* Destiny of the Doctors
* Legacy
* Lego Dimensions

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