The Romance of Crime

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Doctor Who book

The Romance of Crime
Series	Virgin Missing Adventures
Release number	6
Featuring	Fourth Doctor Romana and K-9
Writer	Gareth Roberts
Publisher	Virgin Books
ISBN	ISBN 0-426-20435-2
Set between	The Creature from the Pit and Nightmare of Eden
Release date	January 1995
Preceded by	State of Change
Followed by	The Ghosts of N-Space

The Romance of Crime is an original novel written by Gareth Roberts and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Fourth Doctor, Romana and K-9. It takes place directly before the Missing Adventure The English Way of Death, also by Gareth Roberts.

The title is a quotation from the Morrissey song Sister I'm A Poet.

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