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Cormoran Strike is a Crime fiction books series written by British author J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The story chronicles the many cases of a private investigator named Cormoran Strike and his assistant Robin Ellacott. On 10 December 2014, it was announced that the novels would be adapted as a television series for BBC One. == Plot == In 2010, Cormoran Strike—private investigator, ex-SID investigator and the illegitimate son of a famous rock star (by an affair with a famous groupie) who lost part of a leg in a bombing in Afghanistan—is broke, and his birth father's business agent is calling the loans that he gave to Strike to open his office. The first book is about how Strike is hired by John Bristow, the adopted brother of famous supermodel Lula Landry who had fallen from her balcony three months previously. Bristow wants Strike to investigate his sister's supposed suicide. Strike also meets Robin Ellacott, who has been sent to be his temporary secretary (which he had tried to cancel), despite the fact he can barely afford her. Robin has just gotten engaged to her longtime boyfriend Matthew, with a wedding set the next year. Although Strike only hired her for one week, she turns out to be much more competent than he expected, and they end up extending her stay. Near the first book's end, before Robin leaves for her next job, Strike gifts Robin with a green silk dress she had tried on and loved when they had gone searching for information at Vashti, a dress shop that Lula had frequently bought clothes from. Finally, the two decide that Robin will stay on. The second book is about how Strike is approached by Leonora Quine with a plea to locate her husband, the notorious writer Owen Quine, who has disappeared without a trace. Quine, once hailed as one of the original literary rebels—presented as the literary world's version of music's punk rock scene—has struggled for years to recreate the success of his original novel and has fallen out of public view. Strike discovers that his disappearance coincides with the leak of the manuscript for his latest novel, Bombyx Mori. The London literary community considers Bombyx Mori to be unpublishable; an unpleasant mix of rape, sadomasochism, torture, necrophilia and cannibalism, the hero is eventually tricked and eaten alive by various characters who are thinly-veiled metaphors for people in Quine's life whom he considers responsible for the destruction of his career. The third book is about Robin receives a package from a courier containing a woman's severed right leg. The package was accompanied by a note quoting from the Blue Öyster Cult song "Mistress of the Salmon Salt (Quicklime Girl)", which was a tattoo that Strike's mother, a famous groupie and BÖC fan, had above her crotch. Because of that link, Strike told the police that he believed that the package had been sent by someone from his own past with a grudge against him. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cormoran Strike」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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