Death of a Yorkshire Pudding by Steve Higgs

Author:Steve Higgs [higgs, steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-13T06:00:00+00:00

Miraculous Recovery

Albert felt it necessary to hurry breakfast, which was disappointing because he considered it the most important meal of the day and also, quite often, his favourite. To be fair, the part he hurried was getting dressed and feeding Rex. Rex wasn’t getting a chunk of sausage off the side of his plate this morning, that was for sure.

His full-English platter of thick bacon chops, sausages, black pudding, fried bread, mushrooms, eggs, and grilled tomato got the savouring it deserved, but he skipped his second cup of tea in favour of getting to the museum for the competition. He had money invested in the outcome of the world record attempt now, after all.

Of course, the giant Yorkshire pudding was nothing but background noise against the bigger picture of the two deaths yesterday. Last night, he had wanted to find out about Alan Crystal’s condition, but Brian Pumphrey’s death and then the stabbing, and subsequent death of a definite murder victim had eaten up too much of their evening to make any further investigation tenable.

Gary had been good enough to make some enquiries using his contacts – easy when you are a serving senior officer – so they knew the identity of the murdered man. His name was Jordan Banks, a twenty-eight-year-old man from Wetherby, a town due east of York on the A1(M) motorway. The police were able to lift a set of prints from the ladder, which revealed a misdemeanour record for shoplifting that was a decade old. There was nothing since. He was employed in Wetherby in a fast food franchise and had no link to the Yorkshire pudding competition, to anyone in the competition or appearing at the event, and no link to the museum, Alan Crystal, or anyone else. No one could provide any reason for him to be in York, let alone at the venue.

Why or how Jordan Banks came to be in the field behind the marquee was yet to be determined. Equally, the motive for his murder remained unknown. Gary had a picture of the man on his phone, but he was not someone Albert recognised despite hoping he might have seen him at some point the previous day.

Arriving at the venue, they found the museum entrance open and a crowd queuing to get in. ‘Perhaps we should have gone around the side again,’ commented Gary, wondering how long it would take them to get inside.

As it turned out, the queue moved swiftly, taking them up to the ticket booth where they flashed their VIP lanyards again. Inside the booth was the same man as yesterday, looking just as bored as before as he handed out tickets and took the visitors’ money. Albert and Gary got a nod as they went by, the man’s attention already on the next person in line.

Alan’s idea that the museum might attract a lot more interest was proving to be true as the corridors and rooms they passed were packed with people reading the information on

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