The Scales of Injustice

The Scales of Injustice
Cover Art
Author	Gary Russell
Series	Doctor Who book: Virgin Missing Adventures
Release number	24
Subject	Featuring: Third Doctor Liz Shaw UNIT
Genre	novel
Set in	Period between The Eye of the Giant and The Devil Goblins from Neptune^[1]^[2]
Publisher	Virgin Books
Publication date	July 1996
Pages	262
ISBN	0-426-20477-8
Preceded by	Killing Ground
Followed by	The Shadow of Weng-Chiang

The Scales of Injustice is a Virgin Missing Adventures original novel written by Gary Russell based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Third Doctor, Liz Shaw and UNIT.

Plot

The Doctor suspects Silurians are afoot when a child goes missing in a seaside community, a policewoman begins drawing cave paintings, and the employees at the mysterious Glasshouse project are desperate to hide something. Meanwhile, his assistant Liz Shaw teams up with a journalist to search for people who don't exist, and Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart copes with personal and UNIT crises. And how does all this link back to the very heart of the British Government?

Continuity

This novel begins a trilogy concerning the Pale Man and the Irish Twins which continues in Russell's two Past Doctor Adventures Business Unusual and Instruments of Darkness.
This novel provides the departure scene for the companion Liz Shaw. In the television series her final appearance was in the last episode of Inferno, but she is not seen to leave the Doctor. In the Terror of the Autons her departure was announced by the Brigadier.
The novel is also designed as a prequel to the events of the television serial Warriors of the Deep. Specifically, this story explains how the Doctor knows Icthar and how he knows of the Triad and the Myrka.

References

↑ The Doctor's Timeline at The Whoniverse gives support for specific placement relative to other spin-off media.
↑ Placement between The Eye of the Giant and Terror of the Autons confirmed by cover blurb.

External links

Reviews

The Scales of Injustice reviews at Outpost Gallifrey (Archived)
The Scales of Injustice reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide

Virgin Missing Adventures

First Doctor	Venusian Lullaby The Sorcerer's Apprentice The Empire of Glass The Man in the Velvet Mask The Plotters

Second Doctor	The Menagerie Invasion of the Cat-People Twilight of the Gods The Dark Path

Third Doctor	The Ghosts of N-Space Dancing the Code The Eye of the Giant The Scales of Injustice Speed of Flight

Fourth Doctor	Evolution The Romance of Crime System Shock Managra The English Way of Death The Shadow of Weng-Chiang A Device of Death The Well-Mannered War

Fifth Doctor	Goth Opera The Crystal Bucephalus Lords of the Storm The Sands of Time Cold Fusion

Sixth Doctor	State of Change Time of Your Life Millennial Rites Killing Ground Burning Heart

Seventh Doctor	Cold Fusion

None	Downtime

Doctor Who: Silurian stories

Television episodes	Doctor Who and the Silurians The Sea Devils Warriors of the Deep "The Hungry Earth" / "Cold Blood"

Madame Vastra	"A Good Man Goes to War" "The Snowmen" "The Crimson Horror" "The Name of the Doctor" "Deep Breath"

Minor appearances	Frontier in Space "The Pandorica Opens" "The God Complex" "The Wedding of River Song" "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship" "Face the Raven"

Novels	The Scales of Injustice Blood Heat Happy Endings Eternity Weeps

Video Games	Destiny of the Doctors Evacuation Earth The Eternity Clock The Mazes of Time

Audio Dramas	Bloodtide The Poison Seas

See also	"The Monsters Are Coming"

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