Lestrade and the Magpie
England in 1920 is a land fit for heroes. So why is one of those heroes found dead in a dingy London hotel? And why does his war record show that he has been missing, presumed killed in action, for three years?
The deceased is none other than the fiancé of Inspector Lestrade’s daughter and when her tears are dry, she sets out on a quest to find his murderer. And as always with Sholto Lestrade, one murder has a habit of leading to another; a second body turns up, linked to the first. How can a woman killed in an air raid in 1917, be found with a bullet through her head three years later?
When a succession of foreigners is murdered with the same tell-tale weapon, has World War Two started already? Can it be Hunnish practices? Or the Red Peril? Perhaps the Black and Tans?
A colourful web of intrigue unfolds as Lestrade and his daughter go undercover in the War Office, the Foreign Office, a film studio and at the Yard itself. When Lestrade’s daughter is kidnapped, the writing is on the wall. And the writing says ‘MI5’.
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M. J. Trow
Meirion James Trow, born 1949, is a Welsh author of crime fiction and has written mysteries featuring Inspector Lestrade, Peter Maxwell, Kit Marlowe and Margaret Murray.
Inspector Lestrade
A series of books by M. J. Trow featuring Inspector Sholto Lestrade of Scotland Yard, coming out from the shadow of Sherlock Holmes.
The series is numbered in publication order which is not chronological.
Inspector Lestrade consists of seventeen books and considered as a complete series. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
