In the Nick of Time — James Leigh

Learning that the roof over their heads might be sold and they themselves dispersed, the residents of the Blenheim Care and Retirement home take up arms as a fighting co-operative, determined to buy their home. To raise the money they take to crime - not knowing that the Blenheim is already a front for crime. With luck and love they succeed - yet more gripping than anything else is the effect of their venture on the old communards themselves. In fact ..".the most fantastic development of all in the Blenheim at that time was not so much the founding of its co-operative or Connie's kidnapping as the welling up of so much energy, hope and desire in so many pre-war souls and bodies."