Fittes Agency

**Fittes Agency** is the most respected and eldest paranormal agency in Britain, founded by Marissa Fittes exactly 50 years before The Whispering Skull. Penelope Fittes, her granddaughter, is the current Chairwoman.

The agency's symbol is a silver unicorn carrying a lantern which is a reference to the lantern Marissa Fittes used against the Mud Lane Phantom. Also with her that moment was Tom Rotwell who used his homemade sword to defeat the phantom. The sword Tom used also became Rotwell Agency's symbol.

## History

The agency was founded by Marissa Fittes, one of the two scientists who originally discovered the Problem (the other one being Tom Rotwell). Hambleton Agency was merged with Fittes Agency at one point.

By the time of the first book Fittes has become one of the largest, most famous and most powerful agencies in the UK. In fact, is it alleged by Quill Kipps, a Fittes employee, that it is really Fittes and Rotwell who call the shots in the fight against the Problem, not DEPRAC, the government agency tasked with coordinating and supervising the agencies.

## Fittes House

Located on the Strand, Fittes House is the headquarters of the Fittes Agency. It is where many of the operations are carried out when not out in the field, including secretive research on Sources and the Problem. Penelope Fittes had her apartment above Fittes House and was said to rarely leave it, controlling the business with an iron fist. The main floor of the building contained within the Hall of the Fallen Heroes, featuring oil paintings of young agents that had fallen in the line of duty and plinths beneath decked with rapiers and wreaths of flowers. Within this was a set of six elevators, five colored bronze and one silver, leading to other floors of the building. The silver elevator led directly Penelope Fittes's apartment. Within the Fittes House was also the Black Library, an octagonal room filled with books containing information on the Problem, many of them obscure and rare. The Fittes House was the site of a black-tie party celebrating the agency's 50th anniversary.

## Known agents

* Quill Kipps (formerly agent, team supervisor and leader; now resigned)
* Kat Godwin‏‎ (member of Kipps's team)
* Bobby Vernon (member of Kipps's team)
* Ned Shaw‏‎ (formerly part of Kipps's team; deceased)
* George Cubbins (formerly; now agent of Lockwood & Co.)
* Sam McCarthy (deceased)

## Behind the scenes

On the *Lockwood & Co.* TV series, the Barbican Centre, a performing arts centre in London, is used as the site of the Fittes House.

## References

1. ↑ *The Whispering Skull*, **II: The Unexpected Grave**, Ch. 4
2. ↑ *The Whispering Skull*, **V: A Big Night Out**, Ch. 21: *"Fittes House, headquarters of the estimable Fittes Agency, lies on the Strand just down from Trafalgar Square."*
3. ↑ The Whispering Skull (Chapter 4)
4. ↑ *The Screaming Staircase*, **IV: The Hall**, Ch. 24
5. ↑ *The Hollow Boy*, V: Dark Hearts, Ch.18: "... '*it's because right now Barnes isn't his own man. He's got high-up people from Fittes and Rotwell who are advising him, and* they *keep telling him the center of the cluster's in the heart of Chelsea. He's got to do what he's told. There's no mystery about it. That's how DEPCRAC works.' I frowned at him. 'DEPRAC monitors the agenices. No the other way around.' Kipp's thin face quivered wiht amusement. 'Do you think so? You're so adorable, Carlyle.*'"
6. ↑ *The Screaming Staircase*, **V: And After**, Ch. 25
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