num_pages: 140
description: Stepping out of the Tardis into Victorian London, Leela and the Doctor are confronted by menacing, diabolical horrors shrouded within the swirling London fog – a man's death cry, an attack by Chinese Tong hatchet men, giant rats roaming the sewers, young women mysteriously disappearing...The hideously deformed Magnus Greel, conducting a desperate search for the lost Time Cabinet, is the instigator of all this evil. Posing as the Chinese god, Weng-Chiang, Greel uses the crafty Li H'sen Chang, and the midget Manikin, Mr Sin, to achieve his terrifying objectives.The Doctor must use all his skill, energy and intelligence to escape the talons of Weng-Chiang.
language: English
title: Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang
titlecomplete: Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang
characters: Professor George Litefoot, The Fourth Doctor, Leela, Henry Gordon Jago, The Doctor, Percival Quick
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure, British Literature, Doctor Who, Time Travel, Science Fiction Fantasy, Childrens, Fantasy, Audiobook
ratings_count: 422
places: London, England
series: Doctor Who Pinnacle Novelizations, Doctor Who Target Books, Adventures of the 4th Doctor, Doctor Who Target Books (Numerical Order)
publisher: Target Books; W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd.