The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade (Paperback)

from jtck121166

I found this hilarious and delightfully clever. Poor Lestrade suffers indignity and humiliation throughout his pursuit of a serial killer who bases his spree on the text of Struwwelpeter. The sort of book you wish you'd written.

from jtck121166

I found this hilarious and delightfully clever. Poor Lestrade suffers indignity and humiliation throughout his pursuit of a serial killer who bases his spree on the text of Struwwelpeter. The sort of book you wish you'd written.

from jtck121166

I found this hilarious and delightfully clever. Poor Lestrade suffers indignity and humiliation throughout his pursuit of a serial killer who bases his spree on the text of Struwwelpeter. The sort of book you wish you'd written.

from DLMorrese

The period prose and references make it a bit difficult to follow at times unless you're well acquainted with 19th century England (which I'm not, especially), but I found this a fun Victorian murder mystery. In this first book of a series, Lestrade is the protagonist. He's still a bit of a bumbl...

from lahochstetler

This is not a book for those who are committed to Holmes orthodoxy. This book follows Holmes's Scotland Yard contact, Inspector Lestrade, as he investigates a series of grisly murders. The murders seem to be following the text of a nursery rhyme, and the killer's methods are particularly grotesqu...