Nothing exciting ever really happens in the quiet little town of Verplanck, New York. That isn’t to say that life in Verplanck is boring. No one in this small town seems to blink when one of its best known and possibly least liked residents, Mona Dearly (MIDLER) drives her Yugo into the Hudson to her death. All in all, Mona’s death could be described as a pretty fortuitous accident, except for the fact that it wasn’t an accident. Somebody in Verplanck wanted Mona dead. Bound by duty to investigate the crime, Police Chief Wyatt Rash (DeVITO) soon discovers that he’s not going to get a lot of help from the people who knew her. The biggest problem in Chief Rash’s investigation is when he asks himself ‘who would like to see Mona Dearly dead?, the same answer keeps coming back- Who wouldn’t? …..