Brigade

After the exploits related in The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade there is a new broom at Scotland Yard: Nimrod Frost. His first 'little job' for Lestrade is to investigate the reported appearance of a lion in Cornwall, a supposed savager of sheep and frightener of men. Hardly a task for an Inspector of the Criminal Investigations Department.

Yet even as Lestrade questions a witness a man is reported dead, horrifically mauled. Having solved that case to his own satisfaction, Lestrade returns to London and to another suspicious death and then another.... All old men who should have died quietly in their sleep : is there a connection — is there another mass murderer at work?

Lestrade's superiors, especially Nimrod Frost, discount his speculations and he finds himself suspended from duty, but that is a mere technicality to the doughty Lestrade. He moves from workhouse to royal palace, from back stage at the Lyceum to regimental dinner in his search for clues and enlightenment. Once again M. J. Trow presents his readers with a true puzzle, a cast of larger-than-life characters and a surprise denouement. A treasure of entertainment.

Book Author

Mei-trow M .J.Trow bills himself in many of his books as the only Welshman who cannot sing or play rugby. A military historian by training, graduating from King’s College, London and Cambridge, he has spent most years of his life at the chalk face of comprehensive schools which has given him the inspiration for his latest fictional detective Peter ‘Mad Max’ Maxwell. The first detective series appeared in 1985 in the form of Inspector Lestrade, late of the Conan Doyle canon and after sixteen hilarious, bloody and intriguing outings, the world’s second greatest detective hung ...
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Book Reviews

  • The Strand Magazine
    "...a romp it is – but Trow also has a serious side, which he shows in the first fifteen pages, giving us a sensitive historical account of the Light Brigade and the men who comprised it. Trow writes of the disastrous event with an empathy which makes this book even more exceptional."
  • H R F Keating, The Daily Telegraph
    "Barrowloads of nineteenth-century history, too. in Brigade ... being the second adventure of Inspector Lestrade, mocked at by Dr Watson, now enjoying counterblasting triumphs. Jokey parallels abound, right up to an infant Basil Rathbone momentarily appearing. If you like your humour chirpy, you'll find this sings."