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Books that have nothing to do with Doctor Who
Tonight, I bring you two books that have nothing whatsoever to do with Doctor Who. And yet....
(Oh, there are S4 spoilers in the first one)
Way, way back when it was announced that there would be an Agatha Christie episode in Series Four, there was a lot of speculation on the Outpost Gallifrey forums about what the episode would be about, and what it should be called. I posted about how I was shelving books at work, and I found a copy of The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie:
The publicity stills for the episode have the Doctor wearing the brown suit, so I suggested the episode should have the same title as the book, but it doesn't. Here's hoping the writers have enough forethought to at least have the Doctor be Agatha's inspiration for the title!
(ETA: I had thought that Partners in Crime was the Agatha Christie episode-- I stand corrected!)
The Footprints of God was written in 2004, before the revival of Doctor Who, and long before David Tennant had been tagged to be the tenth Doctor. So how did Greg Iles know?
I found this one the other day, when a customer left it at the cash. I spent the whole day wishing someone at the store was into Doctor Who just so I could share it. Sometimes it's lonely being a geek.
(Oh, there are S4 spoilers in the first one)
Way, way back when it was announced that there would be an Agatha Christie episode in Series Four, there was a lot of speculation on the Outpost Gallifrey forums about what the episode would be about, and what it should be called. I posted about how I was shelving books at work, and I found a copy of The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie:
On the platform of a London Tube Station, Anne Beddingfeld watches in horror as a man looks in her direction, panics, falls on to the tracks and is killed. But who is the mysterious man in the brown suit who comes forward claiming to be a doctor? And what connection does he have to the scrap of paper with a name and date on it that Anne finds at the scene?(Italics are mine, BTW.)
The publicity stills for the episode have the Doctor wearing the brown suit, so I suggested the episode should have the same title as the book, but it doesn't. Here's hoping the writers have enough forethought to at least have the Doctor be Agatha's inspiration for the title!
(ETA: I had thought that Partners in Crime was the Agatha Christie episode-- I stand corrected!)
The Footprints of God was written in 2004, before the revival of Doctor Who, and long before David Tennant had been tagged to be the tenth Doctor. So how did Greg Iles know?
Appointed by the president as ethicist to Project Trinity, Doctor David Tennant finds himself in a pressure cooker of groundbreaking science and colossal ambition. When his friend and fellow scientist is murdered, David discovers that the genius who runs Project Trinity was responsible and that his own life is in danger.(Again, italics are mine.)
I found this one the other day, when a customer left it at the cash. I spent the whole day wishing someone at the store was into Doctor Who just so I could share it. Sometimes it's lonely being a geek.