Doctor Who_ Foreign Devils - Andrew Cartmel [0]
Contents
Prologue
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
China, 1800, and the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe arrive at the British Trade Concession in Canton. A supposedly harmless relic known as the Spirit Gate becomes active and whisks
Jamie and Zoe into the future. The Doctor follows and
arrives in England, 1900, where the descendants of an
English merchant are gathering. Among their number is a man called Carnacki, an expert in all things mystical, and before long he is helping the Doctor investigate a series of bizarre murders. The spirits of the past have returned, and
their attacker may not be all it seems.
An Adventure featuring the second Doctor, Jamie and
Zoe.
'A cracking second Doctor story that innovatively
incorporates William Hope Hodgson's psychic investigator
Carnacki into a rip-roaring adventure' George Mann,
Outland
FOREIGN DEVILS Andrew Cartmel
First published in England in 2003 by Telos Publishing Ltd 61 Elgar Avenue, Tolworth, Surrey KT5 9JP, England www.telos.co.uk
ISBN: 1-903889-33-2 (paperback)
Foreign Devils © 2002 Andrew Cartmel
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Contents
Prologue 1
Chapter One 11
Chapter Two 23
Chapter Three 27
Chapter Four 35
Chapter Five 47
Chapter Six 53
Chapter Seven 63
Chapter Eight 77
Chapter Nine 87
Chapter Ten 95
Chapter Eleven 103
Chapter Twelve 115
Prologue
The streets outside the British Concession were full of the smell of firecrackers, fragrant grey smoke swirling over the greasy faces and trembling banners of the excitable mass of rioters. The throng seemed quite prepared to tear any white man to pieces. But Roderick Upcott had applied generous donations of silver in the right places and he knew of a certain concealed exit, several streets away from the front gates of the Concession.
He emerged into shadows and the sound of dripping water and the thick sour odour of drains in the safety of the merchant's district, a few hundred yards from the spot where the nucleus of the riot was still busily churning. They had arrived at dawn, with a hail of cobblestones aimed at the Concession windows, and hadn't let up for a moment since. Upcott set off in the opposite direction from the Concession and soon he had left behind the smell of gunpowder and the sound of angry chanting voices.
As he hurried along, keeping to shadows, he felt in the pockets of his coat for the reassuring shape of his guns, a handsome pair of greatcoat pistols by Adams of London. He believed these would provide him with a way out of any tricky situation, if required.
Fortunately they were