| Doctor Who: The Many Hands |  | Author: Dale Smith
Publisher: Random House UK
Category: Book
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 285,402
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 4.8 x 1.1
ISBN: 1846074223
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92
EAN: 9781846074226
ASIN: 1846074223
Publication Date: May 15, 2008
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Product Description
The Nor' Loch is being filled in. If you ask the soldiers there, they'll tell you it's a stinking cesspool that the city can do without. But that doesn't explain why the workers won't go near the place without an armed guard, nor why they whisper stories about the loch giving up its dead, about the minister who walked into his church twelve years after he died... It doesn't explain why, as they work, they whisper about a man called the Doctor. And about the many hands of Alexander Monro. Featuring the Doctor and Martha as played by David Tennant and Freema Agyeman in the hit series from BBC Television.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Creepy October 14, 2009
Michelle A. Hollstein (California)
The story totally kept me on edge. I don't know about you, but severed hands crawling about gives me the creeps. Loved it! Very imaginative!
alien hands and sonic screwdrivers April 22, 2009
David Liston (north branford)
one of the better books where the doctor and martha go into the past and have a whirlwind adventure with the walking dead and two mysterious doctors that have they're own agenda.
A fine little adventure March 14, 2009
K. Coleman (Phoenix, AZ United States)
These BBC hardcovers are quick reads, but always deliver cracking good stories. This is one of the best of the Doctor Ten/Martha Jones tales, nicely creepy, set in 18th Century Scotland.
If you just go in expecting a good Doctor story, I think you'll enjoy it.
 Disappointing... October 17, 2008
P. R. Sward (MN, USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
While I was able to finish this book, it did not flow well. I had to trudge my way through all of it. The quotations felt forced, and the plot was just terrible. The author did seem to get the Doctor's personality correct, but there just didn't seem to be a place in the book where we could just sit back and appreciate the Doctor's quirks. Also, I don't feel like the author did a good enough job describing the setting...it was just go, go, go. I understand that was the way of the story, but it did not feel like I was there. A disappointing read.
1759 Edinburgh, Walking Corpses, the Doctor and Martha = Fast Read June 4, 2008
Nancy A. Fox (West Covina, CA USA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
The Doctor and Martha arrive in 18th century Edinburgh, and of course they can't just stroll along the Royal Mile and enjoy some tea and shortbread. Within minutes of arriving, the two of them are trying to stop a runaway carriage carrying a famous American. After stopping the carriage and saving countless lives in the process, they are arrested by the castle guards for disrupting the peace and because Martha is wearing pantaloons (it is 1759 after all). Of course, the Doctor and Martha escape and get separated in the process. Martha ends up with two 18th century anatomists who have a big secret, and the Doctor ends up in a church across the loch surrounded by soldiers and the walking dead.
Of course the Doctor saves the day, and Edinburgh. The action is fast and furious, and the book is quite a page-turner. The author did a nice job writing the characters of Martha and the Doctor, I could hear Freema Agyeman and David Tennant saying the lines in my head as I was reading.
It was an interesting story that adds to the Whoniverse, and gives the Martha Jones character some interesting things to do besides mooning over the Doctor. If you are a fan of the show, and want a fun and quick read I recommend this book. However, if you are not familiar with the Doctor Who series I recommend that you give this story a pass.
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