The Romance of Crime

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The Romance of Crime

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Author	Gareth Roberts
Series	Doctor Who book: Virgin Missing Adventures
Release number	6
Subject	Featuring: Fourth Doctor Romana II and K-9
Set in	Period between The Creature from the Pit and The English Way of Death
Publisher	Virgin Books
Publication date	January 1995
Pages	246
ISBN	0-426-20435-2
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 II and K-9. It takes place directly before the Missing Adventure The English Way of Death, also by Roberts.

The title is a quotation from the Morrissey song "Sister I'm a Poet".^[1]