Spook Street

• Chapter 1 — 9,114 words
  “Heat rises, as is commonly known, but not always without effort. In Slough House, its ascent is marked by a series of bangs and gurgles, an audible …”
• Chapter 2 — 4,663 words
  “There was a pub near the church where they’d filmed Shakespeare in Love, and Louisa bagged a table under a diamond-patterned window while River …”
• Chapter 3 — 6,404 words
  “A mobile phone vibrating on a hard surface sounds like a fart. That this was not an unusual sound in Jackson Lamb’s bedroom, or indeed his vicinity, …”
• Chapter 4 — 4,745 words
  “The COBRA meeting was well underway when Slough House came to life, if the heavy scraping of its back door counted as life: Roderick Ho, his red puffa …”
• Chapter 5 — 12,963 words
  “Leafless trees on the skyline resembled plumes of smoke, and the sky itself was a grey dome, holding the world in place. Every so often dark flecks …”
• Chapter 6 — 5,722 words
  “Emma Flyte said, “There’s nothing to worry about. It’s a routine precaution.””
• Chapter 7 — 4,353 words
  “Roderick Ho was drinking from a bottle that claimed to hold “smart water,” and Shirley couldn’t work out which annoyed her more: who he was, or what …”
• Chapter 8 — 6,406 words
  “Bad Sam Chapman put no trust in itchy feelings.”
• Chapter 9 — 5,221 words
  ““And then he got away,” said Shirley.”
• Chapter 10 — 4,631 words
  “Many a tear has to fall, thought Claude Whelan obscurely; a lyric from a forgotten song, a moment from his past. Long-stemmed glasses on a starched …”
• Chapter 11 — 6,219 words
  “Some while ago, Shirley had constructed a wall chart based on those signs you see on entrances to building sites: We have gone __ days without an …”
• Chapter 12 — 5,919 words
  ““Well,” Louisa said. “I wasn’t expecting this.””
• Chapter 13 — 5,474 words
  “Back in Slough House, Shirley was reliving her near-death experience.”
• Chapter 14 — 5,506 words
  “The rain was never going to stop. It had found a loophole in the weather-laws, and henceforth would fall without interruption, soaking the guilty and …”
• Chapter 15 — 5,468 words
  “The rain had stopped, which was such a longed-for, such an unexpected outcome, that all around the city people were saying it twice: the rain has …”
• Open questions
  Question What does the book deliberately leave standing, and which of its answers are only official ones? Evidence Question What the text …
• POV map
  Question Who sees what, and what does the distribution of viewpoints do to the reader’s knowledge? Evidence Ch Words Sections POVs C00 …
• Structure
  Question How is the book built, and what does its shape do that a linear thriller would not? Evidence 16 chapters, 94,121 words, 136 …
• Timeline
  Question What is the book’s chronology, and where does the text actually pin a date? Evidence When Event Chapter Monday 1 January, …
• Chapter 0 — 1,313 words
  “So this was what springtime in London was like: the women in knee-length dresses of blue-and-white hoops; the men with dark jackets over sweaters in …”