Lestrade
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Fictional character.
In the Sherlock Holmes stories
- G. Lestrade was an Inspector of Scotland Yard (CARD 365).
Description
- He was a lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking (BOSC 182, STUD 534).
- He was a little sallow, rat-faced, dark-eyed fellow (STUD 277).
- He was a well-known detective (STUD 329).
- He and Gregson are the pick of a bad lot. They are both quick and energetic, but conventional - shockingly so. They have their knives into one another, too. They are as jealous as a pair of professional beauties (STUD 448).
- He was the best of the professionals (HOUN 3296).
- He didn't add imagination to his other great qualities (NORW 189).
- He was absolutely devoid of reason, but he was as tenacious as a bull-dog when he once understood what he had to do, and indeed it was just this tenacity which has brought him to the top at Scotland Yard (CARD 285).
His cases
- Scotland Yard gave him the following cases:
- While the Sherlock Holmes hiatus, Lestrade failed on 3 cases, however he solved the Moseley case (EMPT).
- He was hired by James McCarthy to investigate on the Boscombe Valley affair (BOSC).
Relationship with Sherlock Holmes
- When Gregson, or Lestrade, or Athelney Jones are out of their depths — which, by the way, is their normal state — the matter was laid before Sherlock Holmes (SIGN 40).
- He consulted Sherlock Holmes in the following affairs:
- He helped Holmes to find Killer Evans (3GAR).
- Holmes called Lestrade at the end of The Hound of the Baskervilles case (HOUN).
- Holmes visited Lestrade about The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax (LADY).
- Holmes mentioned him as "that imbecile Lestrade" (BOSC).
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