Mr Justin Richards is a noted author of no small repute. In addition to his fictional fantasies concerning the continuing exploits of that mysterious traveller in space and time known only as 'the Doctor'. Mr Richards has some previous experience of chronicling the fantastical events of the Victorian era in his novels The Death Collector, The Parliament of Blood and The Chamber of Shadows. He has also previously penned volumes of a wholly electronic nature both with the help of Miss Melody Malone (Detective) in her adventure The Angel's Kiss and in the form of a dystopian future narrative entitled The Skeleton Clock.