 | By: | Peter Darvill-Evans | | | Rating: |   5.2 (68 votes) Vote here | | | Review: | Excellent historical fiction Read more (3 in total) | | | Released: | May 2001
| | | Publisher: | BBC Books | | | ISBN: | 0-563-53833-3 | | | Format: | paperback | | | Owned: | | | | Buy: |   |
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‘My view,’ said the Doctor, ’ is that you can run — in fact it’s often by far the best option — but you can’t hide. I’ll see myself out.’ Nyssa felt a pang of disappointment. He had gone. She would probably never see him again. The town of Oxford in AD 1278 seems a haven of tranquillity. Under the summer sun, merchants, students and clerics go about their daily, unhurried tasks. Alfric, the proctor of the Franciscan friary, has only two minor problems: one of the friars has gone missing, and there’s a travelling showman, calling himself the Doctor, with a pretty young noblewoman by his side, attracting crowds in the narrow streets. When the missing friar is found dead, the Doctor is convinced he has been murdered. There is a ruthless killer at large, and Alfric reluctantly teams up with the Doctor to track him down. Their investigation leads towards the most celebrated of the Franciscan brotherhood: Roger Bacon, famed throughout Christendom as a scholar — and, in the far future, the subject of a revolutionary thesis by technographer Nyssa of Traken. This story features the Fourth Doctor and Nyssa. |
