Mad Dogs and Englishmen (novel)

Publisher’s Summary
‘Grrrrr.’

The greatest book ever written.

Professor Reginald Tyler’s The True History of Planets was a twentieth-century classic; an epic of dwarves and swords and wizardry. And definitely no poodles. Or at least there weren’t when the Doctor read it.

Now it tells the true tale of how the Queen of the poodles was overthrown; it’s been made into a hit movie, and it’s going to cause a bloodbath on the Dogworld -- unless the Doctor, Fitz and Anji (and assorted friends) can sort it all out.

The Doctor infiltrates the Smudgelings, Tyler’s elite Cambridge writing set of the early twentieth century; Fitz falls for flamboyant torch singer Brenda Soobie in sixties Las Vegas, and Anji experiences some very special effects in seventies Hollywood. Their intention is to prevent the movie from ever being made. But there is a shadowy figure present in all three time zones who is just as determined to see it completed... so the poodle revolution can begin.

Characters
The Doctor

Fitz Kreiner

Anji Kapoor

Iris Wildthyme (alias Brenda Soobie)

Reginald Tyler

Fritter
 * A poodle archivist from the Dog World

Char
 * A poodle archivist from the Dog World

Professor Alid Jag
 * An aphid

Martha
 * Brenda Soobie’s (Iris Wildthyme) (dog world poodle) companion (for over 60 years).

Flossie

Noel Coward

William Freer

John Fuchas
 * Starves to death, forgotten about.

Ron Von Arnim
 * Is just a bit unstable.

Princess Margaret
 * A poodle (royal Poodle) from the Dog World

Mida Slike
 * Agent of MIAOW.
 * Holds a Chair of Bastardisation at the University of Outer Angila

Continuity
Spearhead from Space, Planet of the Spiders, Terror of the Zygons, Pyramids of Mars, The Blue Angel, The Adventures of Henrietta Street,