The Scales of Injustice

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Doctor Who book

The Scales of Injustice
Series	Virgin Missing Adventures
Release number	24
Featuring	Third Doctor Liz Shaw UNIT
Writer	Gary Russell
Publisher	Virgin Books
ISBN	ISBN 0-426-20477-8
Set between	Inferno and Terror of the Autons
Number of pages	262
Release date	July 1996
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.

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.

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

[edit] Plot

Whilst the Third Doctor and Liz Shaw investigate another incursion of Silurians, the Brigadier must discover what the secret Governmental organisation C-19 has in store for UNIT.