Strike follows Groomer here after a night of very little sleep from an upset stomach caused by curry and cocktails he’d had on a date with Madeline. His right hamstring is also acting up again.

“He’d been forced to follow the man on foot as he firstly went shopping on Bond Street, then lunched in a booked-out restaurant and finally chose to walk all the way to the British Museum for what Strike assumed was a business meeting, because he was greeted at the door by a couple of people wearing name badges.” (The Ink Black Heart, Chapter 25)

‘‘’I don’t know where the fuck he’s gone,’ Strike told Barclay irritably in the museum’s Great Court, the all-white two-acre space with a spectacular glass roof that cast a mesh of triangular shadows over walls and floor. ‘He got in that lift, but I didn’t make it in time.’’’ (The Ink Black Heart, Chapter 25)

The British Museum was founded in 1753 as the world’s first public museum. It has a collection of eight million objects, the most famous of which include the Rosetta Stone, the Parthenon Marbles and Egyptian mummies. You can find more information on the museum’s website here.

You can find the British Museum on the map below:

Address: The British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG