Description: Detective Inspector G. Lestrade, or Mr. Lestrade, is a fictional character appearing in several of the Sherlock Holmes stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. Lestrade's first appearance was in the first Sherlock Holmes story, the novel A Study in Scarlet, which was published in 1887. Lestrade and the Deadly Game by M.J. Trow The papers call it suicide. The deceased's father doesn't. But when Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard investigates the death by duelling pistol of Anstruther Fitzgibbon, 27, son of the Marquess of Bolsover, his suspicions of foul play are immediately aroused. One of Britain's leading athletes, 'nimbler than a wallaby on heat', Fitzgibbon is the first victim in a series of murders which threatens to extinguish the exhilaration of the Olympic Games held in London that glorious summer of 1908. As the capital plays host to an army of athletes from the Empire, Europe and the United States, international politics rears its ugly head: a respected German journalist is discovered with an ornate paper-knife embedded in his back. When a hurdler of the Ladies' Team falls victim to her own bust improver (dubbed 'the killer corset'), fingers are pointed in all directions and not least of Lestrade's worries is that his leading lady's husband is an American detective with a short temper and the physique of a brick privy. M.J. Trow is endlessly inventive in his affectionate portrayal of Sholto Lestrade and his eccentric antics in the seething underworld of Edwardian England
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Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Topic: Literature
Publisher: Constable Crime
Author: M.J. Trow
Binding: Hardcover
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
Character Family: Sherlock Holmes
Language: English
Original/Facsimile: Original
Region: Europe
Year Printed: 1991
Modified Item: No
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
