The Brenda and Effie Mysteries (series)

The Brenda and Effie Mysteries was a series of "gothic mystery" prose and audio stories by Paul Magrs. The series followed the adventures of the eponymous Brenda and Effie Jacobs who, along with Whitby and its residents, have numerous adventures involving cozy parodies of pulp monsters and concepts.

The Brenda and Effie novels also often featured characters and concepts that originated in Magrs' Doctor Who stories, most extensively Hotel Miramar, Cleavis, and MIAOW—the latter to the point that VOR 1 inaccurately described MIAOW as originating from Brenda and Effie. The series trickled back into Magrs' more directly Doctor Who work, conceptually in stories such as The Dreadful Flap or The Delightful Bag and thematically in stories such as Organism 96, culminating in Brenda and Effie's adventures with Iris Wildthyme starting in A Tingle of Happiness.

The Brenda and Effie Mysteries also had a couple spinoff novels: Fellowship of Ink and 666 Charing Cross Road, which were both set in the shared continuity of both Magrs' EDAs and The Brenda and Effie Mysteries.

Anthologies

 * A Treasury of Brenda and Effie

Audio

 * The Woman in a Black Beehive - Has an appearance by Blithe Pinking Shears
 * Bat Out of Hull - Features Tolstoy
 * Spicy Tea and Sympathy - Features Cleavis
 * Brenda Has Risen from the Grave