What do you do when your arch-nemesis gives you a hundred monkeys? All Petticoat Katie - Fortean investigator and shameless flirt - wanted was a quiet night with a trashy novelette. But a chance encounter over a stolen eclair with the villainous Ditto Sloth and she becomes the boss of London's largest pulp-fiction factory - and her unusual workers are one banana short of a General Strike. So she asks her friends for help. And the redoubtable Sledgehammer Girl (bicycle technician to idle gentlefolk) heads across the Atlantic with the reclusive and hopelessly-smitten Otto Bazalgette, armed only with a shifting-spanner, her trusty Derringer and a copy of the Pears Encyclopedia. Petticoat Katie takes off on her first full-length adventure in a tale stuffed with more tea than you can shake a custard cream at, a cast of loveable oddballs - and a remarkable little airship.