Trudy’s Grit

Trudy, an attractive blonde biker, comes to work for Texas Rangers. Rocky falls head over heels in love with her.

She is the daughter of Lord Alderley, an elderly widower living in a large mansion (Holmhead). In his younger days he had been a famous road-racer of motorbikes and also designed a major motorbike improvement (“The Lawson Front Fork”) while working for Lawson’s, the motorbike manufacturer. Lawson’s, now owned by a Japanese firm, had never paid Lord Alderley for the design – and now that he is badly in debt and in danger of losing Holmhead, he needs the money. Trudy decides to take matters into her own hands by poisoning the men from the building society who have come to repossess the house.

Unfortunately the men are staying at the Coaching Inn and suspicions of food-poisoning at the hotel, with the Environmental Health Officers taking an interest, put paid to a Wine Festival that Harry is trying to arrange with the local council.

Trudy and Rocky kidnap Matthew Lawson and take him to Holmhead to try and persuade him that Lawson’s has a moral if not a legal duty to Lord Alderley. When Ken realises what they have done, he follows them. Matthew Lawson sees the collection of motorbikes that Lord Alderley has in his cellar and arranges with the Japanese parent company that they will pay off Lord Alderley’s debts in exchange for being able to set up a museum at the house to exhibit the bikes. With the repossession men outside, about to serve notice that the building society has foreclosed on the mortgage, this arrangement happens just in the nick of time.