Lola Woodby is newly widowed but isn't TOO sad about it. Her cheating husband Alfie wasn't a catch...aside from the fact that he was rich. The rich part turns out not to be true. He was being supported by his rich family and leaves Lola penniless. Unaccustomed to doing without her highballs and gin, Lola and the cook Berta leave together with beloved Pomeranian Cedric and try to figure out how to make it. They get an offer they can't refuse...steal a film back for a $3,000 reward. This is prohibition era so that money will keep them quite well for quite awhile. But they have to find the film.
Written as an almost screwball comedy, Lola and Berta are modern day heroines...they have guts and charisma and Berta makes divine cinnamon rolls. Their task is difficult and they really don't know who they are dealing with but start finding out when people end up murdered. Not the smoothest investigators around, these two keep it together and make a memorable duo.
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