Sixty something Poppy Harmon is newly widowed and flat broke and is living in Palm Springs, CA and forced to find a new career she decides to become a Private Investigator because – as a former TV star in a popular PI series from the 1970s – that qualifies her or at least in California it does. Her best friends, Iris and Violet, polar opposites, and Violet’s 12 year old grandson a tech whiz, all sign up to assist and a new enterprise is born in Iris’s garage. One small problem, no customers. So Poppy convinces her daughter’s boyfriend Matt, a struggling talented actor, to be the face of the business. The ploy actually works! And they soon have a rich and well known client, a former movie star, whose house was robbed and her valuable and uninsured jewelry stolen.
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