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 scripts for these stories are available on Paul Magrs' Patreon. 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.

Short stories

 * Never the Bride - released in 2009's Twelve Stories. A prose release of the original radio play.
 * The Curious Package - printed in the 2011 charity anthology Voices from the Past. Later released as part of Team Up.
 * Talented Witches - printed in the 2012 anthology Resurrection Engines. Later released in the 114th episode of the Far Fetched Fables series.
 * The Return of the Discombobulated Woman - published in The Myriad Carnival.
 * The Woolworth Horror - a two part short story released on Paul Magrs' Patreon. Officially published in 2020's A Game of Crones.
 * The Arabian Nighties - Officially published in A Game of Crones.
 * Mrs Hudson at the Christmas Hotel - Officially published in A Game of Crones.
 * A Tingle of Happiness - published in Christmassy Tales''.

BBC Radio 4

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