The Morgan House
The Morgan House is a 18 stories high-rise, or tower block, in the
George Barrens area of the city, which lies close to the city
centre.
The street level floor contains several specialised shops catering to
the well-to-do:
- George’s – a clothes shop for well-heeled businessmen
- Ristorante d’Eiffel – a premium restaurant that serves breakfast
from 6 AM to 11 AM, then lunch until 4 PM and expensive dinners in the
evening and night. The kitchen closes at 10 PM and the bar closes at 2
AM. Then the cleaners come in and spends four hours cleaning the place
until the first breakfast customers arrive. Freshly baked bread is
served every morning from the bakery a few blocks down the road. The
restaurant with its kitchen takes about half the street level floor.
(The names comes from that the owner is a francophile but has no
knowledge of the French language.)
- Frandsen Travel Agency – a travel agency with a speciality of
travelling to South America and Australia (do their guides have any
strange tales to tell?). The owner is of Danish decent.
In the basement there is the office and workshop of the two handymen
that look after the building and its residents and do odd jobs. The next
two floors consists of offices for various companies that can pay the
premium rent and the remaining 15 floors are apartments, ranging from
three to five rooms, except the two apartments on the top floor which
has seven rooms each. All apartments have a kitchen and at least one
bathroom, all with running hot and cold water. The central heating is
run on oil and is located in the basement, while the water tanks for hot
and cold water are stored on the roof (the Fire Department wanted to
have water high up, to be able to flood the building in case of a fire,
and the oil easily accessible in case of fire and not having burning oil
pouring down the building).
Danain Mirabeau’s father built the house in 1897 but the son sold the
house to Maurice Arteaga in 1921.
List of residents
Notable residents in the House:
- Brandon Booker, the western of
the two top apartments.
- Maurice Arteaga used one of the
offices for his businesses, North Transit, Ltd., which he used for the
sale and transportation of cars for premium customers. The business was
not very lucrative, he ran it mostly to be able to serve those customers
and make the sale of the car (which where the profit was made). The
company employed one salesman, two clerks, and a number of temporary
drivers (usually selected by the clerks) who drove the cars to the
customers if the transport distance was considered to be short. For
longer distances the clerks arranged the transportation with various
logistics companies. One of the clerks has left he county for other
work, the other one is currently unemployed and is getting a bit
desperate for a new job and the salesman is now working for one of the
logistics companies. None of them can give any information that is
relevant to the chain of events, they know too little. They can of
course describe Maurice’s business practice but it won’t give any clues
to the present mystery. Maurice still rents the office and have the
guard of the house to check on the office at times. He has placd the
moonstone in a very well designed safe in the office. It is the only
object in the safe and the three keys are all stored unlableed in his
safe at home.
- Herbert de Lucien has an
small apartment on the 9th floor for his private ”crime
fighting” plays. The apartment has two rooms, of which one is mostly
used for changing clothes and the other being the ”interrogation room”,
and a very small but largely unused kitchen, and a small bathroom (there
is barely room to stand between the WC, the very small seated bathtub
and the basin).
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