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What Was Lost Summary and NotesFalcon Investigations
Chapter 1
Kate = Main Character
Mickey = ‘Charlie Chimp the Gangster’ which she named Mickey the Monkey
It appears as though the main character, Kate, is a full grown woman who thinks
about advertising for her (detective) company, Falcon Investigations, with her
partner Mickey. Then, when she enters the mall, she notes that sometimes adults
ask why she is alone and that she likes to eat at Vanezi’s where she orders the
kid’s menu. Her way of talking/thinking comes across as very mature. She keeps
a sort of diary with the schedule of that day.
Chapter 2
The neighbourhood of Kate consists of shops. Kate’s house probably was a shop
too, but the shop window is covered by curtains and turned into a sitting room
where her grandma watches TV.
The greengrocers: Eric & Mavis. They always buy good Christmas presents for her
and she visits them once a week .
The butcher: Mr Watkin. Does not get many customers and tries creative things
to make his shop interesting.
The newsagent: Mr. Palmer and Adrian. Adrian was her first customer and she
helped him stop the shoplifting from sweets. Adrian likes to listen to and read
about music and recommends bands and songs to people. With Kate he talks
about who could be a potential murder and so on.
Chapter 3
(how does the writer put so many tiny details in such short chapters?)
Each time she visited Green Oaks, Kate always paid a visit to Midland
Educational, the large stationery store. Since she was left in charge for the
stationery at school and saw the cupboard that held all the stationery she ever
wanted and more, she was determined that a detective always has good
stationery.
Then she watches the two banks and three building societies for an hour (I think)
with Mickey. She feels a little lonely when she watches the other children play.
Kate’s favourite book is How to be a Detective.
Chapter 4
This chapter gives an example of how Kate’s notebook looks when she is
observing people. She mentioned Mr. Tan who was in Vanezi’s. He seems to
always be there when the no-neck waitress is there too.
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Chapter 5
A new seating system in school brought much confusion into Kate’s class. The
teacher tried to balance everything out by putting the silent kid next to the loud
kid and the smart kid next to the dumb one. This puts the smart and bright Kate
next to Teresa. She broke the old order with her extreme behaviour, like walking
out of class when she was bored. Mrs Finnegan, the worst and meanest teacher,
yelled and poked at her to try and get her to listen, Teresa remained unfazed.
Only when she threatened to expel her and let her stay home all day, did she cry.
Kate saw the bruises on her arms and knew.
(Teresa is being abused at home, so shouting and physical contact doesn’t hurt
her (my heart broke a little) )
Chapter 6
Ivy : Kate’s grandmother from mother’s side
Frank: her father, 61 years old
Kate was the only one in class who had a father but no mother. She never missed
her mother, because she thought there was no room for her what with everything
her father and her did. They watched black and white gangster movies on BBC2,
she helped him with his statistics (the best tea shop, the worst waitress etc.).
How to be a Detective was a gift from her father. One morning when she wakes
up everything is out of place in the room and she finds her father on the ground
in the bedroom. Four hours later he dies in the hospital of a stroke. Her
grandmother Ivy comes to live with her, after making clear that she will not be
her mother.
“I won’t have you going into care. (…) It makes no difference to me where I live
anymore. (…) Your mother was a stupid woman. I’m sorry to say it, but it’s true.
She married a man twice her age and then ran off leaving you behind”
Kate then started Falcon Investigations.
Chapter 7
It seems as though a storm was coming, so when Kate rushes home in
excitement, the disappointment is big when it’s just a wet afternoon. Kate feels
lonely whenever she sees other kids play, but she’s too shy to join them. Instead
she works on her investigation bureau.
Chapter 8
We learn in this chapter that Kate is scared of dogs. She has been bitten eleven
times. Page 31 in her math book is about angles and bearings and when Kate
asked Mrs. Finnegan for an explanation, she gave such a great and complicated
one that Kate did not understand it. Three months later the whole class was stuck
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on page 31. Now Kate discovers Teresa actually understood it and she reluctantly
asks for her advise.
Chapter 9
Kate thought that there was not much happening that could allow her to make
name for Falcon Investigations. She decides to split the research to Green Oaks
and her own neighbourhood. When all the newspaper boys fell ill, she took over
and while doing the round she made notes about the people who lived there. But
after being chased down by three dogs, she decided it was ‘all resources to Green
Oaks’ again.
Chapter 10
Kate and Adrian talk about who they suspect to be killers and criminals in
Adrian’s break or they walk along the canal. Kate tells Adrian that her
grandmother wants her to go to a boarding school, that it’s good for her because
she’ll be with people her own age. But Kate doesn’t want to go, she wants to be a
detective and she’s very bad with people her own age because they think she is
a little strange.
Her grandmother also said she was a nuisance to Adrian and that he pitied her.
He tells her this is not true, that he’d be her friend no matter what age, because
she shines so brightly.
Chapter 11
Teresa and Kate started hanging out after the math incident, when Kate found out
that Teresa wasn’t that stupid. Teresa told Kate strange stories about her
neighbours and then they walked to the graveyard. When Teresa picks a few
poisonous berries, she tells it’s for her father. Her father beats her mother, so she
‘beats’ him up every once in a while so they can all get a break from him.
Chapter 12
A page from Kate’s investigations. Nothing related to the plot, though the affair
Mrs. Evans seems to be having was unexpected. Also Mr. Watkin’s meat is not
edible anymore, but Mrs. Watkin asks her friends to buy some and then put it
straight in the bin. She gives them back the money. (I thought that was funny)
Chapter 13
A bit more details on Teresa. How she doesn’t know boundaries or rules very well.
One day she rounded a corner too quick and ran into the headmaster’s thigh with
scissors she was holding. She could not understand how she would be punished
for an accident. She was expelled for a whole week.
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