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5 unusual facts about Virgin Missing Adventures


All-Consuming Fire

Holmes' creator Arthur Conan Doyle appears in the Virgin Missing Adventures novel Evolution by John Peel, where it is implied that he based some elements of the fictional Holmes on the Fourth Doctor.

Missing Adventures

Virgin Missing Adventures, a series of novels based on the television series Doctor Who

The Paradise of Death

The following serial, The Ghosts of N-Space, would be novelised under the Virgin Missing Adventures series.

Virgin Missing Adventures

He approached the BBC for permission to commission original stories written directly for print, but such a licence was initially refused.

Who Killed Kennedy

Although published by Virgin Books, it is considered a standalone, and not therefore part of then-ongoing Virgin New Adventures or Virgin Missing Adventures series of original Doctor Who novels.


Business Unusual

Some of the plot elements of Business Unusual (the Pale Man and the Irish twins Ciara and Cellian) form part of a trilogy of novels which began in Gary Russell's Virgin Missing Adventures novel The Scales of Injustice and concluded in his PDA Instruments of Darkness.

Christopher Bulis

This was the only novel Bulis wrote featuring the Seventh Doctor, and his next five books were all published under Virgin's Missing Adventures range: State of Change (1994), The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1995), The Eye of the Giant (1996), Twilight of the Gods (1996), and A Device of Death (1997).

Dancing the Code

It takes place before the Virgin Missing Adventure Speed of Flight, also by Paul Leonard.

War of the Daleks

This novel was the first appearance of the Daleks in an original Doctor Who novel; they had not appeared at all in either the Virgin New Adventures or the Virgin Missing Adventures.


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