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When old steam boat the Batch Castle starts plying successfully as the Cluny Steamboat Company to Shrewsbury and back, it takes profit away from a taxi firm in a local border town. The firm's owner, Sidney Acton, plots against the new venture, and only time will tell if his sabotage attempts will bear fruit or blow up in his face...

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Humph, a Brooklyn short-order cook who inherited the crumbling estate of Batch Hall, has married his true love and the future looks bright. But when badger baiters are discovered in Cutterbach Wood, they face the awful decision to sell up.

And then Miss Wyndham, village spinster and amateur sleuth, rides to the rescue on the 49 bus...

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On changing trains near Batch Hall, two crooks on their way home from a wages snatch in Shrewsbury find matters starting to unravel. The money goes missing, and in the midst of a historical re-enactment show, a real gun takes its place among the replica firearms. As a result, the spectators find that there's an extra event on the programme.

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When Sir Humphrey Strange, squire of Batch Magna, departs this world, his estate passes to distant relative Humph, a short-order cook from the Bronx. Humphis persuaded to make a killing by turning the sleepy backwater into a theme-park image of rural England. Will the long-time residents of Batch Magna manage to put a stop to his plans

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Sir Humphrey is playing FatherChristmas at the local hospital, but he won't be able to buy toys for thechildren.

Meanwhile, a plan to attract paying guests to the Hall descends into chaos when actors playing a resident ghost spend too long in the pub. E vents somehow work themselves out - inthe most unexpected manner...