Asylum (Darvill-Evans novel)

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Asylum

Author	Peter Darvill-Evans
Series	Doctor Who book: Past Doctor Adventures
Release number	42
Subject	Featuring: Fourth Doctor Nyssa
Publisher	BBC Books
Publication date	May 2001
Pages	254
ISBN	0-563-53833-3
Preceded by	The Shadow in the Glass
Followed by	Superior Beings

Asylum is a BBC Books original novel written by Peter Darvill-Evans and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Fourth Doctor and Nyssa (resulting in a slight temporal paradox as the Nyssa featured here comes from a time some time after she stopped travelling with the Fifth Doctor).

Alfric, the proctor of the Franciscan friary would be otherwise enjoying his life in the town of Oxford in 1278. However, one of his friars is missing and the town is being disrupted by a noblewoman and her traveling companion, a man calling himself 'The Doctor'.

The missing friar turns up dead. Alfric teams up with the two newcomers to solve the mystery. Their efforts lead them to Roger Bacon, a famous scholar who has ties to Nyssa's technographical life.