Lestrade and the Brother of Death

Recovering from a broken leg after his ignominious fall from the Titanic, Superintendent Lestrade goes to convalesce at the home of his betrothed, Fanny Berkley, and her father Tom, the chief Commissioner of Surrey.

It should have been a relatively peaceful time apart from Lestrade’s lack of dexterity in steering his Bath chair, but an attempt on the life of his future father-in-law (that kills the butler instead) makes him realise that a policeman is never really off duty. What is even more puzzling is the arrival of a letter which simply reads ‘Four for the Gospel Makers’ – and it isn’t the first Lestrade has been sent.

So begins one of Sholto Lestrade’s most mystifying cases. A case that encompasses not only the present but also the past. Lestrade takes a walk down Memory Lane to the time when he was a young, and very naïve, constable. He looks back on episodes in his career that never came to satisfactory conclusions and that hold other clues as to who the sender of the letters is – because whoever it is is a cold-blooded killer.

From the famed portals of the Army and Navy Club to the bright lights of the music hall stage, Lestrade and the Brother of Death chronicles another episode in the life of the legendary policeman.

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

  • Evening Standard
    "Humour pierces the Edwardian mores, the atmosphere seems authentic and Lestrade, though sometimes bewildered as the plot unravels, needs no Sherlock to show him how to get his woman."
  • IOW County Press
    "Lestrade and the Mirror of Murder is sure to delight fans of the Lestrade series which has a cult following."