Sholto Lestrade mysteries
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Sholto Lestrade mysteries volume 3
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English
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Book eight in the Inspector Lestrade series.
Britain has entered the twentieth century. Queen Victoria is dead and the Boer War rages on. Inspector Lestrade is called upon to investigate the brutal death of Ralph Childers, MP. It is but the first in a series of bizarre and perplexing murders that lead Lestrade around the country in pursuit of his enquiries.
The connection between the victims appears to be politics. Is someone trying to destroy the...
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Sholto Lestrade mysteries volume 4
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English
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Book twelve in the Inspector Lestrade series.'You're promising me a peaceful one, eh? This Year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Ten? Let's hope you're right.'Unfortunately, his men can't fulfil Superintendent Lestrade's wish. Nor can his daughter Emma, who moments later brings him news of a tragic boating accident involving members of her family. In fact, Lestrade's lot is definitely not a happy one. He has a number of vicious murders to solve, including...
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Regnery Pub
Pub. Date
c1999
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English
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From his wheelchair, convalescing in a friend's home after breaking a leg on the Titanic, Inspector Lestrade investigates the shooting of the butler. It happened during a hunt and the inspector thinks the bullet was meant for his host, a chief constable.
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Inspector Sholto Lestrade investigates murders by Jack the Ripper and other killers, but the rising body count is the least of his problems. The main problem is interference from bumbling Sherlock Holmes and his incompetent sidekick, Dr. Watson. By the author of Lestrade and the Deadly Game.
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Book seven in the Inspector Lestrade series.
He was in his forty-third year and knee-deep in murder. Well, what was new? Sholto Lestrade wouldn't really have it any other way.
The first fatality in a series of killings which was to become the most bizarre in the celebrated Inspector's career, was a captain of the 2nd Life Guards, found battered over the head in the Thames at Shadwell Stair, an Ashanti War medal wedged between his teeth. Lestrade's...
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Book eleven in the Inspector Lestrade series.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...
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Lestrade and the gift of the prince , Sholto Lestrade mysteries volume 9
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Lestrade and the magpie , Sholto Lestrade mysteries volume 10
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Sholto Lestrade mysteries volume 11
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English
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Book six in the Inspector Lestrade series.
The London Underground Railway, in 1895, was described as 'dark, deadly and halfway to Hell'. Only too true, for as the last train rattled into Liverpool Street, the one remaining passenger did not get off. How could she, when her eyes stared sightless and her heart had stopped?
There was another corpse at the Elephant in the morning, wedged between the seats like an old suitcase. And another had missed...
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Sholto Lestrade mysteries volume 12
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English
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Book two in the Inspector Lestrade series.It was a puzzle that faced Scotland Yard from its very begin-ning – whose was the limbless body found among the foundations? And in the murderous world of Sholto Lestrade, one question is invariably followed by another – what do a lecherous rector, a devious speculator and a plagiaristic novel-ist have in common? Answer: they're all dead, each of them with a bloody space where his skull used to be. And...
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Sholto Lestrade mysteries volume 13
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English
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Book one in the Inspector Lestrade series.'In the circus, nothing is what it seems …'Walk up! Walk up! This way for the greatest show on earth! It is 1879. Disraeli is at Number Ten. The Zulu are being perfectly beastly to Lord Chelmsford. And Captain Boycott is having his old trouble again.What has this to do with the young Detective-Sergeant Sholto Lestrade? Absolutely nothing. Or has it? He has his work cut out investi-gating mysterious goings-on...
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Book ten in the Inspector Lestrade series.Beyond the mountains of the moon …'Right, gentlemen. Recapping by numbers.' Superintendent Lestrade, in martinet mood, was driving his minions.'Murder One. Four victims, Captain Orange, late of the merchant service and his three nieces, when the harness of their trap broke on a downhill gradient near Peter Tavy, Devon.''Clues?''A tall man seen near the Captain's horse shortly before the trap left. He could...
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Lestrade and the kiss of Horus , Sholto Lestrade mysteries volume 15
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Lestrade and the devil's own , Sholto Lestrade mysteries volume 16
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