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* GoodCopBadCop: Done completely accidentally by Robin and Cormoran when Cormoran drags a hostile Pippa into the office. Robin's calm, gentle understanding and Cormoran's fury lead to Pippa coughing up quite a bit of info. Cormoran realizes this after the fact, marveling at the good cop/bad cop routine they just pulled off.
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** Strike says that Liz wants to meet for lunch. He notes that all these book people love their lunches, and wonders if the killer doesn't want to run the risk that Stike might find the guts in their freezer. The guts are in Liz's freezer.
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* GenderNeutralWriting: Given that Rowling does not use a [[TheWatson Watson]] for the Cormoran Strike books she sometimes has to write obliquely when telling the reader that Cormoran has figured out who did it, while not leading the reader know just who did it until TheReveal. She kind of cheats in this one, however, as Cormoran tells Robin that "someone" cooked up the murder plot and "they" got Quine to the Talgarth Road house "where they wanted him"--this coming immediately after the passage where Cormoran is said to have told Robin who the killer is.
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* GenderNeutralWriting: GenderConcealingWriting: Given that Rowling does not use a [[TheWatson Watson]] for the Cormoran Strike books she sometimes has to write obliquely when telling the reader that Cormoran has figured out who did it, while not leading the reader know just who did it until TheReveal. She kind of cheats in this one, however, as Cormoran tells Robin that "someone" cooked up the murder plot and "they" got Quine to the Talgarth Road house "where they wanted him"--this coming immediately after the passage where Cormoran is said to have told Robin who the killer is.
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** And which best-selling author was a victim of the hacking?
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* SeekingTheMissingFindingTheDead: Cormoran is hired by Leonora to find her missing husband, but his corpse is found instead in a quite grotesque murder scene.
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* ShoutOutToShakespeare: DoubleSubverted. At first, the epigraphs preceding each chapter quote plays written by seemingly every Victorian-era playwright except The Bard; though when Shakespeare is eventually quoted, it’s from ''Theatre/TimonOfAthens'', one of his least-known plays.
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* ShoutOutToShakespeare: DoubleSubverted. At first, the epigraphs preceding each chapter quote plays written by seemingly every pre Victorian-era playwright except The Bard; though when Shakespeare is eventually quoted, it’s from ''Theatre/TimonOfAthens'', one of his least-known plays.
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[[TimeSkip Eight months after]] [[Literature/TheCuckoosCalling solving the Lula Landry case]], HardboiledDetective [[AwesomeMcCoolName Cormoran Strike]] has become a minor celebrity and is doing rather well for himself. His HypercompetentSidekick Robin Ellacott is set to marry the man of her dreams in a few months, but secretly feels she is [[DudeWheresMyRespect unappreciated]] by her fiancé, who deplores her job, and her boss, who she believes fails to see her potential.
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[[TimeSkip Eight months after]] [[Literature/TheCuckoosCalling solving the Lula Landry case]], HardboiledDetective [[AwesomeMcCoolName Cormoran Strike]] Strike has become a minor celebrity and is doing rather well for himself. His HypercompetentSidekick Robin Ellacott is set to marry the man of her dreams in a few months, but secretly feels she is [[DudeWheresMyRespect unappreciated]] by her fiancé, who deplores her job, and her boss, who she believes fails to see her potential.
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* BlindingCameraFlash: Strike is caught by surprise, and briefly blinded, when flash-popping paparazzi appear outside his office. Someone tipped the press off that he found Owen Quine.
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* InvitedAsDinner: InUniverse, ''Bombyx Mori'' ends with Bombyx thinking that he's been invited to a feast as the guest of honor. Instead all the other characters kill an eat him. Owen Quine's killer proceeds to gut him and arrange seven plates for a dinner, evoking the ending of Quine's book.
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* DramaticDrop: "The book slipped out of her lap and fell, disregarded, to the floor." This is how Robin reacts after Strike texts her with the news that he found Owen Quine, the man they've been looking for, murdered.
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* AlcoholHic: A drunk Jerry Waldegrave hiccups at the Roper Chard party while talking to Strike.
* TheAlcoholic: Jerry Waldegrave, who is drunk at the Roper Chard party Strike attends, and who has the "sonorous over-deliberation" of the "practiced drunk". The people at the office blame Waldegrave's wife for driving him OffTheWagon.
* TheAlcoholic: Jerry Waldegrave, who is drunk at the Roper Chard party Strike attends, and who has the "sonorous over-deliberation" of the "practiced drunk". The people at the office blame Waldegrave's wife for driving him OffTheWagon.
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* FictionalDocument: ''Bombyx Mori'' first of all, but this being a story about authors and the literary world there are references to several other imaginary novels, including Quine's one semi-popular novel ''Hobart's Sin'', his novel ''The Balzac Brothers'', Joe North's novel ''Towards the Mark'' that Michael Fancourt finished up after North died, and passing references to a couple of Fancourt's novels.
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* NoodleIncident: A couple more references to Robin dropping out of university and abandoning her psychology degree, including Robin ruminating about how Matthew's mother had regarded her as "forever tainted" by the circumstances in which Robin dropped out of school. The exact reason why Robin dropped out isn't explained until the next novel, ''Literature/CareerOfEvil''.
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* CuckoldHorns: Present in ''Bombyx Mori'' and, eventually, one of the clues that helps Strike deduce the truth. "The Cutter", the RomanAClef stand-in for Jerry Waldegrave the editor, has horns. Strike figures out that the horns are an allusion to the old rumor that Michael Fancourt was the real father of Jerry's daughter Joanna. The thing is, Quine knew that to be impossible, because he knew from back in the day that Fancourt had once caught the mumps and as a result was rendered infertile.
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** Strike thinks about how this killer left no trace, no history of violence, "no bloodstained past dragging behind them like a bag of offal for hungry hounds." This is how Liz Tassel has been disposing of her bag of offal, Owen Quine's guts: by taking them out of her freezer a bit at a time, thawing the bits, and feeding them to her dogs.
** In an interview, Fancourt flippantly says that he might write an introduction for ''Bombyx Mori'' when it's published. At the end Strike tells Robin that Fancourt actually will write an introduction for the real ''Bombyx Mori''.
** In an interview, Fancourt flippantly says that he might write an introduction for ''Bombyx Mori'' when it's published. At the end Strike tells Robin that Fancourt actually will write an introduction for the real ''Bombyx Mori''.
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* ShoutOutToShakespeare: DoubleSubverted. At first, the epigraphs preceding each chapter quote plays written by seemingly every Victorian-era playwright except The Bard; though when Shakespeare is eventually quoted, it’s from Theatre/TimonOfAthens, one of his least-known plays.
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* ShoutOutToShakespeare: DoubleSubverted. At first, the epigraphs preceding each chapter quote plays written by seemingly every Victorian-era playwright except The Bard; though when Shakespeare is eventually quoted, it’s from Theatre/TimonOfAthens, ''Theatre/TimonOfAthens'', one of his least-known plays.
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* SummationGathering: Subverted. All the characters except Leonora Quine gather together for the climactic chapter, but Strike didn't summon them; they were at a party for another Roper-Chard client. And Strike doesn't drop TheReveal on the whole group, instead pulling two of them outside.
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* GenderBlenderName: Orlando is a...unique name for a girl.
** [[Literature/OrlandoABiography Not entirely unique]] — nor surprising for the daughter of a writer known for gender-blending themes.
** [[Literature/OrlandoABiography Not entirely unique]] — nor surprising for the daughter of a writer known for gender-blending themes.
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* GenderBlenderName: Orlando is a...unique name for a girl, but [[Literature/OrlandoABiography appropriate]] given that Orlando is the daughter of a writer known for gender-blending themes.
* GenderNeutralWriting: Given that Rowling does not use a [[TheWatson Watson]] for the Cormoran Strike books she sometimes has to write obliquely when telling the reader that Cormoran has figured out who did it, while not leading the reader know just who did it until TheReveal. She kind of cheats in this one, however, as Cormoran tells Robin that "someone" cooked up the murder plot and "they" got Quine to the Talgarth Road house "where they wanted him"--this coming immediately after the passage where Cormoran is said to have told Robin who the killer is.
* GenderNeutralWriting: Given that Rowling does not use a [[TheWatson Watson]] for the Cormoran Strike books she sometimes has to write obliquely when telling the reader that Cormoran has figured out who did it, while not leading the reader know just who did it until TheReveal. She kind of cheats in this one, however, as Cormoran tells Robin that "someone" cooked up the murder plot and "they" got Quine to the Talgarth Road house "where they wanted him"--this coming immediately after the passage where Cormoran is said to have told Robin who the killer is.
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* StreisandEffect: InUniverse, as Robin observes that, if someone didn't want ''Bombyx Mori'' to be published because it was insulting or libelous, murdering Quine was the worst thing they could have done because it would draw a ton of publicity. (The answer is that the killer actually wanted the book read.)
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** Matthew, complaining after Strike was late for their meeting at the bar, says "He'll probably arrive forty minutes late and ruin the service." This is exactly what happens at the end of the next novel, ''Literature/CareerOfEvil''.
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** Matthew, complaining after Strike was late for their meeting at the bar, says "He'll probably arrive forty minutes late and ruin the service." service" (Robin and Matthew's wedding ceremony). This is exactly what happens at the end of the next novel, ''Literature/CareerOfEvil''.
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* HeadInOven: Michael Fancourt's wife Elisabeth committed suicide by putting her head in an oven after a particularly cruel parody of her work.
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* HeadInOven: Michael Fancourt's wife Elisabeth committed suicide by putting her head in an oven after a particularly cruel parody of her work.
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'''Strike:''' [[WritersSuck Thank Christ for that, from all I'm hearing about them.]]
'''''The Silkworm''''' is the second crime novel in the [[Literature/CormoranStrikeNovels Cormoran Strike series]] by [[Creator/JKRowling Robert Galbraith]].
'''''The Silkworm''''' is the second crime novel in the [[Literature/CormoranStrikeNovels Cormoran Strike series]] by [[Creator/JKRowling Robert Galbraith]].
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'''''The Silkworm'''''them.
''The Silkworm'' is the second crime novel in the [[Literature/CormoranStrikeNovels Cormoran Strike series]] by [[Creator/JKRowling Robert Galbraith]].
'''''The Silkworm'''''
''The Silkworm'' is the second crime novel in the [[Literature/CormoranStrikeNovels Cormoran Strike series]] by [[Creator/JKRowling Robert Galbraith]].
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* {{Not}}: The traditional version is used by Leonora Quine. She explains to Strike that since her husband has gone missing, somebody has started putting dog excrement through their letter box. "Three or four times now, at night. Nice thing to find in the morning, I don't think."
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* {{Cuckold}}: What the horns of the Cutter in the fake ''Bombyx Mori'' signify. It's an allusion to the rumor that Michael Fancourt was the real father of Jerry Waldegrave's daughter. It's also one of Strike's clues that Quine didn't write the fake ''Bombyx Mori'', as he knew that Fancourt was infertile after contracting the mumps long ago.
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* RevengeViaStorytelling: Quine promised that he would write a novel in celebration of his loved ones, such as his mistress Katherine and their surrogate daughter Pippa. However, the novel itself is a violent revenge fantasy, lashing out at all his co-workers, his wife Leonora, and his onetime friend Michael Fancourt. His editor Liz is depicted as a violent rapist, for instance, and the others are subterranean monsters. [[spoiler:But double subverted. That isn't Quine's book, which depicts Katherine and Pippa positively. Liz wrote a parody of it and hid the real book before killing Quine in revenge for blackmailing her. So the story is a double revenge: against Quine himself and against other literary figures.]]
