Synopsis
Doris, Lottie and Marge, three ladies of a "certain age" have
been sharing Violet's rented house, pooling their pension books
and sharing chores. When Violet dies following a mugging, they omit to
tell the authorities so that they might continue to draw her pension, a
vital part of their common economy.
Life goes on: Marge begins
another evening course, Doris shops - pocketing change for her secret
tipples - and Lottie the writer pushes taste to the limit with her hard
boiled heroine, Vanda Lane. However, Violet's granddaughter Ronnie,
arrives from Australia in search of her relative. When she guesses the
story she joins the commune hoping to improve their standard of living
by bumping off the other old ladies for their pension books. Fending
off the suspicious Inspector Grubb, she almost succeeds in attracting
shoplifter Rose to the co-operative. But Rose is more than a match for
the others, and Lottie's crime novel, which has mirrored the events of
the play throughout its macabre process, is completed by Rose in quite
a different manner than Lottie had intended...
