Mrs. Applebee is the wife of Thomas Applebee, the farmer whose farm was crushed by the giant Jack the Giant Killer sent in The Fairy-Tale Detectives. After finding Thomas' with no recollection of the giant's destruction, Relda, Daphne and a reluctant Sabrina approach Mrs. Applebee to question her instead. However, she is unable to answer their questions as she tearfully recounts that she was in New York at the time with her sister. She tells the Grimm that an Englishman had approached her husband and her with the intention of buying their plot of land; when they refused, he turned nasty. However, the Englishman returned a few days letter, apologising for his behaviour and offering two tickets to New York as a gesture of apology. With Thomas unable to attend, Mrs.Applebee took her sister al