With something of the feel of the Ealing comedies this play concerns the genteel, elderly occupants of a London apartment block, who with the best of intentions plan to commit a murder. This is the last of a quartet of plays featuring Dame Beatrice and her lodgers Nan, Hattie and the Brigadier.
This tale of spoilt married matrons and neglectful husbands and the chaos caused when a former lover reappears provoked moral outrage when originally produced in the 1920s. A liberal supply of alcohol and a housemaid who is an expert at everything ensures a masterpiece of comic wit and timing.