A lunchtime early in the book finds Robin in the Rosewood Hotel.  She has followed Mrs Two-Times there.  The Rosewood is a luxury hotel on High Holborn (Chapter 23).

Mrs Two-Times is having a cocktail in the bar with a female friend.

As Robin keeps an eye on Mrs Two-Times, she mulls over Dominic Culpepper’s newspaper article using anonymous quotes from his cousin, Nina Lascelles, to smear Strike’s character and behaviour.  

She receives two texts – the first from Murphy containing a link to a house for sale suggesting that they view it, and the second from Strike telling her she can stand down her surveillance as Two-Times is to join his wife and her friend in the bar.

As Robin is asking for her bill, she receives a call from a girl purporting to be Dilys Powell’s great-niece.  By the time they have finished speaking, Two-Times has arrived, and Robin leaves.

‘In the lobby of the hotel, Robin paused beside a large Christmas tree surrounded by silver models of fawns.’

She calls Strike and tells him that, as she is close to the Silver Vaults, she is going to take the opportunity to try and speak to Pamela Bullen-Driscoll.

She heads out onto High Holborn, towards Chancery Lane.

Find the Rosewood Hotel on the map below.