In another memorable tale in the Batch Magna Chronicles, a hapless gang of Birmingham crooks, lead by self-styled criminal mastermind pawnbroker Harold Sneed, pull off 'the big one', a wages snatch at a factory in Shrewsbury. Two members of the gang take the money from there by train back to Birmingham, changing at Church Myddle, a station almost on the doorstep of Sir Humphrey of Batch Hall. And it's there that things starts to unravel. The money goes missing...