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

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

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See also|

* Novelisations
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* Torchwood
* The Sarah Jane Adventures Collection

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Novels|

| Doctor Who|

* Legacy
* Invasion of the Cat-People
* The Scales of Injustice
* Placebo Effect
* Instruments of Darkness
* Spiral Scratch
* Beautiful Chaos
* The Glamour Chase
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* Arc of Infinity
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Audio

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* State of Change
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* Burning Heart

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Past Doctor Adventures|

* Players
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* The Shadow in the Glass
* Instruments of Darkness
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