Vita Tugwell: 12 books
Maiden Flight
The First Petticoat Katie Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
What do you do when your arch-nemesis gives you a hundred monkeys?
All Petticoat Katie wanted was a quiet night with a trashy novelette. But one chance encounter over a stolen eclair with the villainous Ditto Sloth and boom! - she's the boss of London's largest pulp-fiction factory.
And...
Monkey Business
The Third Petticoat Katie & Sledgehammer Girl Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Life with a hundred monkeys and two rival inventors can be tiring, so Petticoat Katie heads to Italy for a short holiday with the dashing Scipio Jones.
Chaos, of course, fills in the gaps.
When she returns, half her monkeys have a bun in the oven and Sledgehammer Girl's taken up acoustics....
The Mammoth Hunters
A Petticoat Katie & Sledgehammer Girl Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Russian archaeologists on the Bakerloo Line. Unusual measuring instruments left on the Underground. And a pair of Fortean investigators with a sunny afternoon to fill. So how does this lead to tea at the Admiralty and arithmetic at a hundred paces?
The Lights Over Cromer
A Petticoat Katie & Sledgehammer Girl Novelette
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Strange lights in the sky over the Norfolk coast. A shortage of crab-meat sandwiches. And Mr Gordon Drooko, umbrella magnate, launching himself into the air wearing only a knitted bathing-costume and a pair of mechanical wings. Petticoat Katie - peppermint cream aficionado and Fortean investigator...
The Christmas Chupacabras
A Petticoat Katie & Sledgehammer Girl Short Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
It's Christmas, and Petticoat Katie has her eye on a bundle of puppies fresh from Buenos Aires. Her Fortean suspicions are aroused when they turn out to have a fierce appetite for human flesh, and only Scipio Jones, gentleman adventurer, can help her avoid totally ruining the festive season. Red in...
The Missing Mermaid
A Petticoat Katie & Sledgehammer Girl Novelette
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
The first ever story to feature Petticoat Katie - peppermint cream aficionado and Fortean investigator - and her substantial friend Sledgehammer Girl, bicycle technician to idle gentlefolk. On behalf of Mr Scipio Jones - the only black man in London to have scaled Mont Blanc - the ladies explore...
The Monkeys Of Ditto Sloth
A Petticoat Katie & Sledgehammer Girl Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
When Petticoat Katie - Fortean investigator and keen admirer of the trashy novelette - finds her latest good reads to be abominable, she takes matters into her own hands, with the aid (of course) of her good friend Sledgehammer Girl, a woman who knows where her hammer is (and isn't afraid to use it). Shakespeare, it ain't...
The Nessie Collector
A Petticoat Katie & Sledgehammer Girl Novelette
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
A night in with an improving book doesn't normally lead to Inverness.
When Petticoat Katie - Fortean investigator and crochet whizz - learns that the world's lake monsters are disappearing faster than a rabbit into a magician's hat, she fears for the safety of the Loch Ness Monster....
The Giggle Gun
A Petticoat Katie & Sledgehammer Girl Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
West End theatre was never meant to be this amusing. When Petticoat Katie encounters an implausible play that nearly bursts her laughing strings, she suspects a plot of Fortean dimensions. With the aid of Mr Camembert - he of the extra nipples - she goes backstage to investigate. What will she find?...
Boom Town
The Second Petticoat Katie Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2013
Petticoat Katie has just about got the hang of keeping eighty-eight monkeys fed, watered and typing trashy novelettes in Piccadilly. Business is - about as good as you might expect, to be honest. Then her on-off paramour disappears from the Cabinet of Curiosities leaving a cryptic telegram and a frustrating...
The Weather Thief
A Petticoat Katie & Sledgehammer Girl Novelette
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
There's a drought of crop circles across England. The British summer, not normally known for its endurance, refuses to end, and the prospect of Christmas on the beach is drawing closer with each monotonous sunny day. Petticoat Katie - Fortean investigator and shameless flirt - packs her bag and heads...