The Paper Trail

For those who came in late….

The time is the 1930s. The city of St. Nicholas, Maryland is being plagued by a series of lethal tenement fires; arson is suspected, but no arrests have been made. Meanwhile, business has been slow for private investigator Doug Davis, giving him a lot of free time on his hands. One afternoon while bending a bar rail at a local tavern, Davis is attacked by a drunk whose clothes smell like gasoline. Suspecting an involvement with the tenement fires, Davis searches the man’s pockets after the fight and discovers an address for a building in the warehouse district of town. [Part One]

An interesting discovery

St. Nicholas, Maryland. April 2, 1936…

From the shadows across North Howard Street, Doug Davis peered at the warehouse and waited for total darkness. He was determined to check out the building’s contents, but he wasn’t going in alone; he’d brought reinforcements.