The Chelsea Arts Club

The Chelsea Arts Club is a members only club that features significantly at the end of The Silkworm, Chapter 47 and 48. Here, Roper Chard host a party for one of their celebrated authors, which Cormoran attends.

“The club stood in a leafy, sleepy and genteel street…” 

In the book, the front of the building has “cartoonish murals” that were “strangely eerie” in the light of the old-fashioned street lamp. “Circus freaks had been painted on the rainbow-strippled walls of a long low line of ordinary white houses knocked into one: four-legged blonde girl, an elephant eating its keeper, an etiolated contortionist in prison stripes whose head appeared to be disappearing up his own anus.”

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Unfortunately, these murals are no longer there and it is now just a plain white building.

During the party, Strike heads out the back of the club into a garden with an icy pond; he digs a trench through the snow with his feet shortly before being followed by two people, one of them he reveals as Owen Quine’s killer.

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