An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor ...

The one-pound note went through several transformations and eventually was taken out of circulation in 1984 and replaced with the equivalent coin used today. This left the £5 as the smallest note ...

With Edwardian settings providing a fascinating background, the yarn suffers from the protracted exploitation of one basic joke ... that a man with a million pound bank note in his possession ...