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Review: The Dream Team

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      Another year, another run of The Fifth Doctor Adventures by Big Finish. This time Adric is along for the ride, completing the season 19 quartet. It's a team I like to describe as a dysfunctional family, and is one befitting of the box set's title: The Dream Team .   The era-appropriate variant of the cover art, designed by Ryan Aplin. The Merfolk Murders      Tim Foley has become a regular writer on this range, previously penning The Auton Infinity and last year's Pursuit of the Nightjar - which I previously gave a glowing recommendation - expectations are set high, this time stepping away from sci-fi and placing the Doctor and his friends into a more traditional murder mystery with The Merfolk Murders .     The team find themselves at the University of St Andrews in 1940 and meet the Merfolk, a society that spends the summer reading murder mystery stories, who soon have a real murder to discuss. The society's leader Athena, maths student Henry, the allied so