About this episode

Fiona F discusses her theories on the mysterious deaths of Leda Strike and Charlotte Campbell in the context of the Cormoran Strike novels.

‘Fiona F’ is a Hogwarts Professor subscriber in Adelaide, Australia, the truly down under capitol of the South Pacific island-continent. She works as an environmental scientist on the days she isn’t combing through the Cormoran Strike novels of Rowling-Galbraith in search of answers to the over-arching mysteries of that series. The Hogwarts Professor Talking Heads duo invited her to a discussion of her potential solutions to two of the unresolved questions that have to be answered before the epilogue of Strike 10, namely, ‘What really happened in the ruled-a-suicide deaths of Leda Strike and Charlotte Campbell?’ Fiona seems to have broken both cases using information dropped as asides in Hallmarked Man . The Ten Questions that guided their conversation are below with the promised links and Fiona’s time-lines and comments on the Moderator Backchannel they discuss. In brief, about Leda’s death Fiona notes that we learn in Strike 8 that Shanker is familiar with ‘Barnaby’s, the preferred body-disposal business used by the London under-world, to include the Ricci Crime Syndicate. She connects that dot with (1) Strike’s memory of making a drug delivery for Shanker to the Ricci…

People in this episode

Host: John Granger

Guest: Fiona F

Topics covered

• mystery
• literature analysis
• Cormoran Strike
• character deaths
• theories
• Rowling-Galbraith

Keywords

• Leda Strike
• Charlotte Campbell
• Cormoran Strike
• mystery theories
• Rowling-Galbraith
• Hallmarked Man
• Ricci Crime Syndicate

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ricci Crime Syndicate

Books & works: Cormoran Strike novels, Hallmarked Man, Troubled Blood

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