Bull in a China Shop story
Homicide detective Dennis O'Finn lives next door to a group of elderly women who are smitten with him. Miss Hildy-Lou murders two of the other ladies solely so that O'Finn will visit them for the murder investigation. O'Finn, horrified to learn of their motive, transfers to the arson department, only for the remaining ladies to set their house on fire. Directed by: James Neilson. Story by: C.B. Gilford, Sarett Rudley.
8 total · 6 major · 2 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| coping with an obsessive fan | major | Dennis O'Finn was beset upon by a group of elderly women who were so smitten with him that they stooped to murder merely to get his attention. |
| law enforcement | major | The story follows the homicide detective Dennis O'Finn as he investigates two suspicious deaths at the boarding house next door to his own residence. |
| loneliness | major | A group of elderly women were so starved for attention, especially from strapping young lads, that they stooped to homicide and arson just to get visits from the police and the fire brigade. |
| neighbor and neighbor | major | A group of old ladies living all together in a boarding house went to elaborate means to get their handsome Irish neighbor to pay them visits. |
| obsession | major | The elderly Miss Hildy-Lou was so smitten with the homicide detective Dennis O'Finn that she poison murdered two of her friends just so that O'Finn would visit her for the murder investigation. |
| poison murder | major | The elderly Miss Hildy-Lou dispatched with two of her friends by means of arsenic-laced tea. |
| arson | minor | Two old ladies set their own house on fire in a deranged effort to get Dennis O'Finn, who'd been newly transfered to the arson department, to pay them a visit. |
| nonconsensual voyeurism | minor | The elderly Miss Hildy-Lou and her friends were peeping on their neighbor, the Irishman Dennis O'Finn. |