Pleasant Vices

"A sharp social comedy" John Mortimer, MAIL ON SUNDAY The residents of the Close were pre-occupied with crime - prevention of it. It was all those out-of-work teenagers on the nearby council estate, hanging around, stealing and joy-riding, that provoked Paul Mathieson to establish a Neighbourhood Watch scheme. Of course, their own minor crimes were harmless - travelling without a ticket on the underground, the occasional experimental use of certain substances, driving home just slightly over the legal limit. These were nothing compared to what went on in the Estate. But then there was Jenny's little discovery when she advertised flute lessons: she found a nice little earner in a rather unexpected way...