Asylum

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Asylum
Series:	Doctor Who - BBC Past Doctor Adventures
Release Number:	42
Doctor:	Fourth Doctor
Companions:
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Author:	Peter Darvill-Evans
Publisher:	BBC Books
Publication:	May 2001
Format:	Paperback Book, ? Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-563-53833-3
Previous Story:	The Shadow in the Glass
Following Story:	Superior Beings

For the Torchwood audio play, see Asylum (Torchwood).

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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.

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