A murder mystery played on foot. The map is the street you're standing on.
Tonight on Bankside, Nell Garrow was found at the foot of the loading stairs behind the Anchor, with the tide out. Three people had reason to want her quiet.
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Bankside, an hour past closing. The Anchor is ahead, 75 metres up the street.
Exhibit 01 · Scene
The Anchor
The riverside pub, an hour past closing. Towels over the pumps, one coat still on its hook.
Evidence
Torn cab receipt A card receipt, torn in half, for a cab south over Southwark Bridge. Timed 23:14.
Yesterday's racing card Ringed in biro and left under a pint glass. Nobody in this is on it.
Testimony
Last orders at half eleven. Nell went out the back to settle up with somebody and never came in for her coat. Tobias was still at the bar. Iris Penhale, landlady
Gone by quarter to eleven. Home, and asleep long before one. Ask Iris, she saw me leave. Tobias Quell, rents three of the lock-ups
Testimony is not fact. It can be true, mistaken, or a lie.
Out the back of the pub and down to the river path. 30 metres.
Exhibit 02 · Scene
The Loading Stairs
Iron steps down from the kitchen door to the river path. Slick with the last of the tide.
Evidence
Nell's stopped watch Nell's wristwatch, stopped at 23:40, its glass cracked against the bottom step.
Testimony
Out back with the empties, the whole time. I'm the one who found her. Dora Finch, pot-washer at the Anchor
She and Tobias had words about the lock-ups. He told her he'd sort it himself. Iris Penhale, landlady, back at the Anchor when shown the watch
Back up from the stairs and east to the brick lock-ups under the Clink Street warehouses. 175 metres.
Exhibit 03 · Scene
Riverside Lock-up
A row of brick storage units under the warehouses. Nell kept the books for every one of them.
Evidence
Nell's ledger Nell's ledger for the lock-ups. Dora Finch's loan is marked paid in full, a week ago.
Testimony
In a cab over Southwark Bridge by quarter past eleven. I kept the receipt, or half of it. Silas Monk, owns the warehouse