Analysing class condition

The Cuckoo's Calling is a crime fiction novel authored by J.K. Rowling (2013) and published under the penname Robert Galbraith. The work is the first in a series of five murder mysteries featuring a private detective protagonist named Cormoran Strike (Rowling 2014, 2015, 2018, 2020). As the series develops, the character Robin Ellacott assumes greater significance, starting as Strike's temporary secretary, progressing to first permanent employee and then business partner, and becoming a protagonist in her own right. The dual focus on Strike and Robin is accelerated in the television series, Strike (2017–2020), which has thus far adapted the first four novels. The Cuckoo's Calling opens with a prologue that takes place three months before the beginning of the central narrative and closes with an epilogue that takes place ten days after its conclusion. The murder mystery plot, which is set in London over a period of four weeks from March to April 2010, is divided into five parts, the middle three of which are of a similar length and the two bookends considerably shorter. The movement from inaugural instability to retrospective inevitability that constitutes the literal meaning of the narrative is Strike's investigation of the suspicious death of supermodel Lula Landry. The prologue provides a glimpse of the scene of her death, caused by a fall from the penthouse of an apartment block. The represented sequence of events then proceeds as follows: Strike agrees to hire Robin on a temporary basis and to investigate Lula's death on behalf of her adopted brother, John Bristow, who is not satisfied with the official verdict of suicide (Part I); Strike begins his investigation with a series of interviews, none of which alter his initial impression that Lula jumped (Part II); Strike suspects that Bristow has mental health problems and that Tansy Bestigui (Lula's neighbour), Tony Landry (Lula's uncle), and Rochelle Onifade (Lula's friend) are all withholding information from him (Part III); Strike gains access to and has an experience of Lula's celebrity lifestyle; Rochelle, who has witnessed Lula's missing will, is murdered; and Lula is revealed to have a half-brother, Jonah Agyeman (Part IV); Strike confronts Bristow, who murdered Lula and hired Strike to make a case against Agyeman, and Bristow tries to kill him (Part V).