The story starts out with Hilda Hopkins finding her elderly lodger has died in his sleep. He has left his bank card out, along with a his PIN. Hilda realises no one is going to miss him, and decides to keep his death a secret. This enables her to collect not just his rent, but all of his pension. As he will have no grave, Hilda makes a beautiful knitted doll in his memory.
Hilda decides to advertise for a new lodger, but this one proves to be a right pain. A new decision is made, to sedate him, and then garrote him with a knitted cord. This decision leads her on a killing spree, a flight from the law, and into many interesting places including a police cell, a castle in Scotland, a seaside B&B, and a dominatrix's home.
I thoroughly enjoyed the stories about Hilda and her sociopathic life. I bought a copy of the stories for my Mam, and she loved them too. She has passed them around her circle of friends as is trying to get them back so she can re-read.
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