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.

Brenda and Effie stories 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 Boy That Time Forgot 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 includes seven novels, one anthology, and four audio stories, which won the New York Festivals Radio Award 2015 for Best Audiobook and were re-released as the eight-part podcast Grandma Guignol. The series also has several spinoff novels, including 666 Charing Cross Road, Mrs Danby and Company, and Fellowship of Ink, set in the shared continuity of Magrs' Doctor Who books and The Brenda and Effie Mysteries.

BBC Radio 4

 * Never the Bride - the original 1998 story that was later adapted into various forms

Bafflegab Productions

 * The Woman in a Black Beehive - Featuring Jessie and the Christmas Hotel, as well as a doll incarnation of Mrs Claus who first appeared in Iris Wildthyme and the Claws of Santa. The Salford Cat and Blithe Pinking Shears also make an appearance.
 * Bat Out of Hull - Features Tolstoy
 * Spicy Tea and Sympathy - Features Cleavis.