Funny / Lethal White

• Strike makes a call while a busker sings "No Woman No Cry" in the street below. At two points in the call, the song's lyrics match what is happening in the call at that point.
• Robin being uncharacteristically petty during a terrible argument with Matthew by correcting him on the pronunciation of Chiswell's name (which is treated similarly to Guy Somé's in the first book). The fact that she takes the time to do this while her marriage is going down in flames around her is darkly hilarious.
  Robin: - it's pronounced Chizzle -
• The valuing of a painting:
  Drummond: — but it was worth peanuts. Peanuts.
  Strike: How much, at a guess?
  Drummond: (dismissively) Five to eight thousand at a push.
  Strike: Quite a lot of peanuts to some people.
• Cormoran laments that Robin has brought none of the food he normally would expect her to on a car trip.
  Robin: I thought you were trying to lose weight.
  Strike: Nothing eaten on a car journey counts, any competent dietician will tell you that.
  Robin: Calories Are Bollocks: the Cormoran Strike Diet.
  Strike: Hunger Strike: Car Journeys I Have Starved On.
• One of the suspects that Strike and company are investigating is a guy named Jimmy who writes for a number of leftist websites. Strike is trying to figure out Jimmy and his girlfriend Flick's means of income, with it being said that "He could find no indication online of how they were supporting themselves, unless writing for far-left websites paid better than he had imagined." Later, Strike, Robin and the contractor Barclay are speculating about Flick finding out about Chiswell wanting a cleaner while trying to dig up dirt about him in general. "So they could run an exposé on the Real Socialist Party website?" comments Barclay. "That'd reach a good four or five people."
• Upon learning that Cormoran knows Charlotte Campbell, Fizzy Chiswell keeps bringing up various friends of the Campbell family, asking if Strike ever met them, but the answer is no. Strike wonders she would think if he told her that the Campbells kept him as far away from their friends and family as possible and decides that she might even be equal to that.
  Oh, but then, you must have run across Basil Plumley? They loathed him, yah, violent alcoholic, but his wife did climb Kilimanjaro for Dogs Trust...
• The Running Gag regarding horse colors and Strike's exasperation regarding the terms used for them.
  Strike: I've just put a tenner on Brown Panther. ... ... Brown Panther. Except he isn't, isn't he? Black mane, so he's—
  Robin: —a bay, yes. Are you upset he isn't a panther, either?
  Strike: Just trying to follow the logic. That stallion I found online—Blanc de Blancs—was chestnut, not white.
  Robin: Not gray, you mean.
  Strike: Fuck's sake.