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Windibank's Pawnbrokery | |
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Organization info | |
Organization type | Pawn shop |
Leader | Pop Windibank |
Established | Sometime before The Adventure of the Unspeakable Story |
Other dates | Apr. 16: Pop Windibank is murdered by Ashley Graydon during a burglary. |
Location info | |
People to meet | Pop Windibank Gina Lestrade "Eggert Benedict" Tobias Gregson |
Available evidence | Music Box Disc |
Linked locations | Baker Street Storage Room |
Windibank's Pawnbrokery was a business on Baker Street owned by Pop Windibank. It became a crime scene when Windibank was murdered during a burglary. Among the shop's customers was the famous detective Herlock Sholmes.
Background[]
In late 19th century London, pawn shops were often used for storing items; the customer give the item to the pawnbroker, who would then hold it for them for a set amount of time before putting it up for sale if they did not return in time. The customer could return for it before the deadline and get the item back by giving a prearranged password.
Appearance[]
Among the items in Windibank's pawn shop are a stereoscope and a calendar near the door that's not for sale. Sholmes installed a system of devices in the shop that looked liked a camera merged with a clock; these acted as a rudimentary surveillance system that would take photographs of the shop's counter every half hour.
The music discs[]
- Main article: The Adventure of the Runaway Room
A famous philanthropist called Magnus McGilded made a deal with Ashley Graydon in which the latter would steal governments in exchange for a lot of money. However, Graydon's father, Mason Milverton, who was acting as a intermediary between the two, refused to hand over the second of the two discs that they were stored on, so McGilded killed him. A pickpocket named Gina Lestrade, was forced to help McGilded cover up the crime. The omnibus's driver, Beppo, was told to take Milverton's jacket (with the music disc in one of the pockets) and a special music box, and store them at Windibank's pawn shop. Lestrade was in turn told to pick up the jacket before the time limit ran out. However, McGilded died shortly after he escaped getting convicted of Milverton's murder due to a plan led by the bricklayer's son.
The burglary[]
- Main article: The Adventure of the Unspeakable Story
Gina Lestrade still was going with McGilded's plan despite his death. She went to Windibank's Pawnbrokery to receive. Pop Windibank refused to sell it no matter what but Lestrade desperately wants it for some reason. She's always been delivering goods to his shop that includes the disc Pop has, she was hiding it in her long coat. But then Ashley Graydon visited the shop, under the alias "Eggert Benedict", to get the discs back himself. He claimed that Gina Lestrade had stolen his proof of reservation for McGilded's coat. Herlock Sholmes and Ryunosuke Naruhodo deduced his true intentions, to intercept the stolen music disk inside the coat's pocket, and in a fit of anger, he attempted to take the coat at gun point. He was forced to retreat from the shop after the arrival of Tobias Gregson and the Scotyard.
That night, Gina Lestrade broke the lock on the door so she could get one of Iris Wilson's manuscripts in Windibank's vault. She lit the lamp on the counter and saw that someone was there, so she grabbed a gun to defend herself. But it turned out just to be Pop Windibank who reluctantly agrees to let her see the manuscript and unlocks the vault door. In the vault the two them her a noise. Windibank takes the gun and tells Lestrade to stay in the vault.
Ashley Graydon has arrived with his childhood friends, Nash and Ringo Skulkin, to steal the discs. The brothers go towards the back of the shop while Graydon looks on the shelves near the front, he quickly finds the music box and takes out the disc inside. Windibank confronts the brothers first, and they have a scuffle at the back, he beats them up surprisingly well. Upon noticing Graydon, the shop owner shoots him, the bullet goes through his left arm and into the wall calendar. Graydon panics, and shoots his own gun at Windibank, who had been retreating back into the vault. Despite meaning it only as a warning shot, his aim was uncanny and it hit Pop Windibank's heart killing him on the spot. Upon realizing that, he panicked and ran from the scene, leaving the Skulkins to deal without him.
Sholmes, Naruhodo, and Susato Mikotoba noticed what was going on from Sholmes's attic and went to check it out. When they arrive, one of the Skulkins fires his gun and injures Sholmes. The brothers escape while Naruhodo chases after them. Susato goes to the vault door to see if Lestrade is alright. It was locked so she uses a machine she got Iris that makes cat doors to make a peeking window to see. Then, she goes over to help Sholmes. Naruhodo returns with a police officer who says they got an emergency report from the shop, the Skulkins got away from him. Sholmes tells him to go to the vault, he looks through the window and sees the pawn shop owner's corpse and Gina Lestrade unconscious and armed.