Instruments of Darkness

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Doctor Who book

Instruments of Darkness
Series	Past Doctor Adventures
Release number	48
Featuring	Sixth Doctor Mel and Evelyn Smythe.
Writer	Gary Russell
Publisher	BBC Books
ISBN	ISBN 0-563-53828-7
Set between	The Trial of a Time Lord and Time and the Rani
Number of pages	288
Release date	November 2001
Preceded by	'Dying in the Sun'
Followed by	'Relative Dementias'

Instruments of Darkness is a BBC Books original novel written by Gary Russell and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Sixth Doctor and Mel.

Like all Doctor Who spin-off media, the way the plot fits in to the ongoing story of television series is open to interpretation. See Whoniverse#Inclusion and canonicity

This novel concludes a trilogy concerning the Pale Man and the Irish Twins which began in Russell's The Scales of Injustice and Business Unusual. Evelyn Smythe, the Sixth Doctor's companion from the Big Finish Productions audio plays, also appears.