The World of Inspector Lestrade by M. J. Trow

Author:M. J. Trow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BLKDOG Publishing
Published: 2022-07-14T00:00:00+00:00

❖ The Gift of the Prince ❖

1903

‘Lang may your lum reek, Lestrade.’

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holto Lestrade had never smelt the tangle o’ the Isles before Arthur, Duke of Connaught put him on the trail to the Highlands. Murder is afoot among the footmen on the Royal Household; a servant girl, Amy Macpherson, has been brutally murdered.

Ineptly disguised as a schoolmaster in his bowler and Donegal, with his battered old Gladstone, the intrepid Superintendent is impelled by a villainous web of conspiracy northwards to the Isle of Skye by way of Balmoral.

With the skirl of the pipes in his ears and more than a dram of a certain medicinal compound inside him, Lestrade, following the most baffling clues he has yet unravelled, takes the low road alone, save for the trusty yet mysterious Alistair Sphagnum in his twin-engined, bright red boneshaker. Narrowly escaping the inferno of Room 13 in the North British Hotel, Lestrade falls foul of The McNab of That Ilk and The Mackinnon of That Ilk and plays a very odd game of ‘Find the Lady’ in Glamis Castle.

Coming from Scotland Yard is no help at all to a Sassenach in trews and everyone is convinced it’s a job for the Leith Police. Threatened by ghoulies, ghosties and wee, sleekit beasties, Lestrade hears things go bump in the night before solving the case of Drambuie.

Queen Victoria (God Bless Her!)

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he was 4ft 10 or 11in and came up to Prince Albert’s chest (when he let her!). She became queen at the age of 18 and by the time Lestrade was born (they never met) was a married woman with five children. The three main elements of her life were: wife to Albert; queen of England and later Empress of India; mother to her eventual toll of nine children. She carried out her duties in that order, loathed babies and toddlers and found it funny if people fell over or caught their fingers in doors. Rather than not being amused (one quote in thousands of diary entries) she liked her humour slapstick.

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