Birthright

"The TARDIS has died. Stranded in early twentieth-century London, Bernice can only stand and watch as it slowly disintegrates. In the East End, a series of grisly murders has been committed. Is this the work of the ghostly Springheel Jack or, as Bernice suspects, something even more sinister? In a tiny shop in Bloomsbury, the master of a grand order of sorcerers is nearing the end of a seven-hundred-year quest for a fabled magic wand. And on a barren world in the far-distant future, the Queen of a dying race pleads for the help of an old hermit named Muldwych, while Ace leads a group of guerrillas in a desperate struggle against their alien oppressors. These events are related. Perhaps the Doctor knows how. But the Doctor has gone away."--Page 4 of cover