Christopher Nayor reads this novelisation of a BBC radio adventure featuring the Third Doctor and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart.

Sarah Jane Smith, on holiday in Italy with her chum Jeremy and a bad case of writer’s block, is amazed to find the Brigadier in the same part of Italy. He is there to help a distant relative whose tiny island home has been threatened by the American mobster Max Vilmio.

When the ghosts that haunt the island’s crumbling castle are joined by less benign spectres, the Brigadier summons the Doctor – who discovers that the whole of mankind is threatened by the plans of the ruthless Vilmio and his mysterious, hooded henchmen.

Barry Letts novelised his own 1995 six-part BBC Radio 2 drama that starred Jon Pertwee, Elisabeth Sladen and Nicholas Courtney.

Reading produced by Morrison Ellis. Sound design by Oliver Denman. Executive Producer for BBC Audiobooks: Michael Stevens

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