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Fictional character.


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== In the Sherlock Holmes stories ==
[[File:Illus-sixn-paget-01.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Inspector Lestrade (on the left) by [[Sidney Paget]] (in [[The Adventure of the Six Napoleons]])]]

* Inspector of [[Scotland Yard]].


=== Description ===

* He was a lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking. ([[BOSC]] {{refcanon|BOSC|182}}, [[STUD]] {{refcanon|STUD|533}})
* He was a little sallow, rat-faced, dark-eyed fellow. ([[STUD]], {{refcanon|STUD|277}})
* He was a well-known detective. ([[STUD]], {{refcanon|STUD|329}})
* He and [[Tobias Gregson|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]], {{refcanon|STUD|448}})
* He was the best of the professionals. ([[HOUN]], {{refcanon|HOUN|3296}})
* He didn't add imagination to his other great qualities. ([[NORW]], {{refcanon|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]], {{refcanon|CARD|285}})


=== His cases ===

*[[Scotland Yard]] gave him the following cases:
** [[BRUC|The Cadogan West affair]]. ([[BRUC]])
** [[NORW|The Oldacre affair]]. ([[NORW]])
** [[SECO|The Eduardo Lucas affair]]. ([[SECO]])
** [[NOBL|The Lord St. Simon affair]]. ([[NOBL]])
** [[The Case of the Bogus Laundry]]. ([[Untold Stories|Untold Story]], [[CARD]])
* 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 [[BOSC|Boscombe Valley affair]]. ([[BOSC]])


=== Relationship with Sherlock Holmes ===

* When [[Tobias Gregson|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]], {{refcanon|SIGN|40}})
* He consulted [[Sherlock Holmes]] in the following affairs:
** [[STUD|The case of the murder of Enoch Drebber]]. ([[STUD]])
** [[CARD|The case of the murder of James Browner]]. ([[CARD]])
** [[SIXN|The destruction of the Napoleon busts]]. ([[SIXN]])
** [[BOSC|The case of the murder of Charles McCarthy]]. ([[BOSC]])
* 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]])


== Performers ==

* [[:category:Lestrade performers|List of {{PAGESINCATEGORY:Lestrade performers}} Inspector Lestrade performers]]
* [[Gallery of Inspector Lestrade performers]]





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