Powder Smoke

York railway station December 1925. Detective Inspector Jim Stringer is enjoying a pint in the Parlour Bar before accompanying his wife Lydia to a charitable function. But Jim is alarmed to see a man pointing a revolver in his direction. His thoughts go spinning back to a hot day at the end of August when he attended the York Summer Gala in company with his boss Superintendent Saul Weatherill aka 'the Chief'. The Chief had insisted on taking Jim into a Wild West sideshow. The star of the show was a young sharpshooter called Kid Durrant. As Jim watched Durrant displaying his deadeye skills he little realised how this would be the start of his most dangerous investigation yet.