In Part 3, Chapter 10, Robin tells Strike their client John Bristow has managed to get through to fashion designer Guy Somé for an interview at his studio on Thursday at ten o’clock.
“It’s out in Chiswick, near Strand-on-the-Green” Robin tells Strike.
Before heading out for the interview, Strike puts on his dark blue suit that he had worn in Cipriani.
“The studio he sought had been a disused nineteenth-century warehouse, which stood on the north bank of the Thames. The glittering river dazzled his eyes as he tried to find the entrance, which was not clearly marked; nothing on the outside proclaimed the use to which the building was being put.” (Part 4, Chapter 10)
At last he discovers the discreet and unmarked bell by the warehouse door of the studio.
Strike enters and proceeds to interview Somé in his office.