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''The Cuckoo's Calling'' is a 2013 crime fiction novel by J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. It is the first novel in the ''Cormoran Strike'' series of detective novels and was followed by ''The Silkworm'' in 2014 and ''Career of Evil'' in 2015. ==Plot== In 2010, Cormoran Strike, a private investigator who is an ex-SID investigator lost part of a leg in a bombing in Afghanistan, and also is the illegitimate son of a famous rock star (by an affair with a famous groupie), is broke, and his birth father's business agent is calling the loans that he gave to Strike to open his office. At that point, 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. Bristow's other sibling, a brother named Charlie, had been a schoolmate of Strike before his death, which came when he fell into a quarry while riding on his bicycle. 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 for December that 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. Strike is initially skeptical about John Bristow's claims, having read extensive media coverage following the case, and he is unwilling to reopen such a thoroughly investigated case. However, because he needs the money, he proceeds with the interviewing process and encounters Lula Landry's security guard, personal driver, uncle, friends and designer. Each character recounts their recollections of Lula as Strike comes to realise that the circumstances of her death are more ambiguous than he imagined. Strike interviews several people, such as Lula and John's maternal uncle Tony Landry, Lula's homeless friend Rochelle, and her boyfriend, Evan Duffield. He is especially intrigued by the statement of Tansy Bestigui, Lula's downstairs neighbour, who said she heard Lula fighting with a man and then falling from her balcony. It is clear she could not have heard it from two floors below through the triple glazed windows, so her statement was initially dismissed. However, in reality, her husband had found her with cocaine and then pushed her out onto the balcony and locked her there, which was how she heard it. She did not reveal her true location to the investigating officers, because it was -10°C outside when her husband had pushed her onto the balcony, and her husband had demanded she remain silent, as he was fearful of being arrested for abusing Tansy and attempting to pervert the course of justice. Later, Rochelle Onifade is found dead, killed hours after leaving a meeting with Strike. Strike realizes that she must have been in contact with Lula's murderer, though he doubts that she knew the person to be the killer. Lula, as a mixed-race girl adopted into a wealthy white family, took a special interest in investigating her biological roots before her death. Strike discovers that Lula was murdered for the ten million pounds she possessed, although the police ignore his discoveries. Strike then figures out that John, his client, is in fact the murderer, hoping to get Lula's money, and that he was also responsible for Charlie's death years before. John was using Strike in an attempt to frame Lula's biological brother Jonah for her murder, suspecting (correctly) that Lula had made a will leaving her fortune to Jonah. John planned that if the will, which he had been unable to locate, eventually surfaced, Jonah would be unable to inherit if he had been convicted of Lula's murder. He had hoped that Strike's friendship with Charlie would endear him to him. When Strike presents the truth to John, John attempts to stab him, resulting in a physical altercation. Strike is saved when Robin returns to the office during the struggle. Near the 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; both are happy about the decision, though Strike reflects that Matthew, Robin's fiancé, would not be happy about the fact that he had purchased the gown for her. The novel closes with Strike at a doctor's appointment for his injured leg. 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「The Cuckoo's Calling」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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