Lestrade
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Fictional character.
In the Sherlock Holmes stories
- Inspector of Scotland Yard.
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 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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