The Man in the Velvet Mask
The Man in the Velvet Mask is an original novel written by Daniel O'Mahony and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The novel features the First Doctor and Dodo.
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| Author | Daniel O'Mahony |
|---|---|
| Series | Doctor Who book: Virgin Missing Adventures |
Release number | 19 |
| Subject | Featuring: First Doctor Dodo |
| Set in | Period between The Savages and The War Machines[1][2] |
| Publisher | Virgin Books |
Publication date | February 1996 |
| Pages | 250 |
| ISBN | 0-426-20461-1 |
| Preceded by | Downtime |
| Followed by | The English Way of Death |
The story is set in an alternate universe version of the French Revolution and features the Marquis de Sade as a prominent character.
Plot
The TARDIS lands in post-revolutionary France, but something is off: a futuristic structure called the New Bastille towers over a twisted version of Paris, ruled over by the tyrannical First Deputy Minski, adopted son of the infamous Marquis de Sade. An ailing Doctor is arrested as a curfew breaker, Dodo is recruited by a group of wandering players with less than decent intentions, and in the dungeons of the Bastille, one called Prisoner 6 cannot remember who he is. Outside space and time, aliens watch as their experiment begins to go wrong.
Sequel
The author intended to write a direct sequel to this novel, a black comedy named Viet Cong! and set in 1916, but it was not commissioned.