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| Garrideb house | |
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| Organization info | |
| Organization type | Boarding house |
| Status | Active |
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| Owned by | John Garrideb |
| Enter from | Briar Road |
| Relevant cases | The Adventure of the Clouded Kokoro The Memoirs of the Clouded Kokoro |
| Location info | |
| People to meet | Soseki Natsume (formerly) Joan Garrideb (arrested) William Shamspeare (arrested) Duncan Ross (deceased) Selden (arrested; deceased) |
| Linked locations | Ground Floor Mr Natsume's Room Landlord Garrideb's Flat |
The Garrideb house, also known as the Garrideb residence or Mr Natsume's Lodgings, is a three-floor townhouse on the intersection of Briar Road and Strand Street. It was owned by John Garrideb and used as a boarding house, taking in tenants such as Soseki Natsume.
The cursed room[]
- Main article: The Memoirs of the Clouded Kokoro
A British soldier named John Garrideb went to live in the boarding house as landlord after he was shot in the knee. It was a poor complex so Garrideb's wife, Joan, pretended to be the maid to make it seem like he was rich.
One day, the tenant on the second floor, Selden, was arrested for eighteen counts of robbery and six suspected counts of murder. A street photographer named Duncan Ross came passing by and moved into the flat. Another man named William Shamspeare wanted that same flat but since Ross occupied it already he moved in the flat just below. After Selden died, the second floor mysteriously kept getting gas leaks. The flames on the stove keep going out and gas fumes in the room made it hard to breathe. This made people believe that Selden's ghost now haunts the boarding house and curses its residents with death.
Ross's fiancé, Olive Green, begged him to move out in fear of his death. Ross didn't want to live with her parents before they graduate from art school but he was in fact going to move to a better place. But later that night he suffocated because of so much gas fumes and died. John Garrideb first noticed that something was wrong because he notice his hearth getting brighter, that means one of the gas lamps in the other rooms went out, the boarding house only had one gas pipe. He kicked down the locked door to find Ross's corpse.
Failed revenge plot[]
- Main article: The Adventure of the Clouded Kokoro
By the time the investigation surrounding Duncan Ross' death was complete, and the gas pipes were fixed, an exchange student from Japan named Soseki Natsume came to the poor complex to save money on books.
Name[]
- The term "Garrideb household" is often used loosely to refer to the house itself and the Garridebs' actual residence on the top floor. The term "household" would technically refer to the entire house and its occupants as a single unit for the sake of analysis in various social sciences.
- In keeping with the British English localization, the floor above the ground floor is referred to as the first floor and the top floor is referred to as the second floor.