num_pages: 275
description: She's got ice in her heart and a kiss on her lips...1939 New York. Private Eye Melody Malone is hired to find a stolen ruby the Eye of Horus. The ruby might hold the secret to the location of Cleopatra's tomb - but everyone who comes into contact with it dies. Can Melody escape the ruby's curse?1939 New York. River Song author of the Melody Malone Mysteries is forced to find a reality-altering weapon the Eye of Horus - but everyone who comes into contact with it dies. River doesn't believe in curses - but is she wrong?From the top-security confines of Stormcage to the barbarism of first-century Egypt River battles to find the Eye of Horus before its powers are used to transform the universe. To succeed she must team up with a most unlikely ally - her own fictional alter ego Melody. And together they must solve another mystery: Is fiction changing into fact - or is fact changing into fiction?
language: English
title: Doctor Who: The Ruby's Curse
publisher: Penguin Group UK