The Sands of Time by Justin Richards

The Sands of Time is a Doctor Who novel featuring the Fifth Doctor and has been written by Justin Richards.

Upon arrival in Victorian London, the Doctor and his companions Nyssa and Tegan head straight to trouble and Nyssa is kidnapped by egyptian extreme religious fantatics while in the British museum.

Meanwhile the Doctor and Tegan are greeted by a stranger who knows more about them than he should and invited to a very strange party.

Why are rooms already booked for the Doctor at the Savoy? How can Lord Kenilworth’s butler Atkins be in Egypt and London at the same time? What is the history of the ancient mummy to be unwrapped at Kenilworth’s house? And what has all this got to do with Nyssa?

The Doctor’s quest for answers leads him across continents and time as an ancient Egyptian prophecy threatens 1990s England. While the Doctor attempts to unravel the plans of the mysterious Sadan Rassul, mummies stalk the night and an ancient terror stirs in its tomb.