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Review of The Red Lady by Guardax

30 June 2025

This review contains spoilers!

Doom Coalition rolls on with The Red Lady, which is an introduction for me at last to Helen Sinclair. I will never get tired of returning to the well of 1963, and a genius female academic constrained by a sexist culture is a perfect fit for traveling with the Doctor. Despite tracking the Eleven, there is seemingly little movement there although we have uncovered a message from Galileo (although I thought the tablet was much older). The idea of a monster trapped inside paintings and stories reaching out and murdering people is a good one, although I got slightly ahead of the characters in their deductions again. There were some great sound design moments too, such as when the characters cover their eyes and everything goes quiet. It's impressive work to do visual horror on audio, but this story pulls it off. It's a confident debut for Helen, and I'm excited to continue on from here.


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