The Death of Art (novel)

The Death of Art was the fifty-fourth Virgin New Adventures novel. It featured the Seventh Doctor, Chris Cwej and Roz Forrester. It was another in the arc of stories featuring psychic powers.
== Publisher's summary ==
He did not know if his powers could save him until the horses' hooves had crushed his ribs and his heart had stopped beating. After that, it was obvious.
1880's France: the corrupt world of the Third Republic. A clandestine brotherhood is engaged in a desperate internal power struggle; a race of beings seeks to free itself from perpetual oppression; and a rip in time threatens an entire city. The future of Europe is at stake, in a war fought with minds and bodies altered to the limits of human evolution.
Chris finds himself working undercover with a suspicious French gendarme; Roz follows a psychic artist whose talents are attracting the attention of mysterious forces; and the Doctor befriends a shape-shifting member of a terrifying family. And, at the heart of it all, a dark and disturbing injustice is being perpetrated. Only an end to the secret war, and the salvation of an entire race, can prevent Paris from being utterly destroyed.
== Plot ==
to be added
== Characters ==
* Seventh Doctor
* Roz Forrester
* Chris Cwej
* David Clayton
* Brother Tomas
* Montague
* Clarissa Montfalcon
* Dominic Montfalcon
* Emil Montfalcon
* August Mirakle
* Georges Picquart
* Anton Jarre
* Claudette Engadine
* Jean Veber
* Marcel
* Alfred Dreyfus
* Francesque Duquesne
* Grandmaster
* Hubert Henri
* Jean Mayeur
* Jules Perraudin
* Jules Balmarian
* Kasper
* Pierre Duval
* Truthseeker
== Worldbuilding ==
* The King in Yellow is mentioned.
=== Devices ===
* The ormolu clock is still within the TARDIS.
=== The Doctor ===
* The Doctor was once invited to the Rani's 94th birthday party.
=== The Doctor's items ===
* Ace has the Doctor's 500 Year Diary.
=== People ===
* Georges-Eugene Haussmann became Prefect of Paris in the 1850s.
* Roz Forrester recals arresting the fake mystic Rhan-Te-Goth in the 30th century during her three-month stint on fraudster watch assigned by her trainer Konstantine.
=== Species ===
* The Time Lords' lives are linear, just in more dimensions.
=== Sports ===
* Roz practices archery.
* Chris doesn't know a lot about cricket.
=== Theories and concepts ===
* The Sensory Limitation Effect is a barrier of scale where events take place over timescales too vast to be meaningful.
=== Food and beverages ===
* The Doctor drinks wine.
* Roz stays up all night drinking red wine with David.
== Notes ==
* This novel is based on the historical events of the Dreyfus Affair.
* The novel makes references to the disappearance of the author of The Dynamics of an Asteroid - i.e. Professor James Moriarty, last seen falling off a cliff in Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story The Final Problem.
* Anton Jarre recalls meeting a Belgian police sergeant who is clearly intended to be a young Hercule Poirot, the detective created by Agatha Christie.
* The novel makes reference to the events of The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe.
== Continuity ==
* Chris pretends to be the Fifth Doctor, not very successfully, following the events of PROSE: Cold Fusion.
* The Doctor saves the partially formed Notre Dame du Paris configuration in the TARDIS for possible later use. (TV: Doctor Who)
* The Quoth later made a minor reappearance in PROSE: White Canvas.
== External links ==
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* The Cloister Library: The Death of Art
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