Lestrade and the Mirror of Murder

'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 hames of their trap broke on a downhill gradient near Peter Tavy, Devon.

'Clues?'

'A tall man seen near the Captain's house shortly before the trap left. He could have cut the harness.'

'And?'

'A broken mirror found in the Captain's breast pocket.'

'Murder Two, sir. Janet Calthrop, fell downstairs at King's College, London, on the way to the boudoir of her lover. Tripwire across the stairs. Broken neck.'

'Clues?'

'One broken mirror found in said lover's boudoir.'

'Murder Three. Juan Thomas de Jesus-Lopez, honorary major with the Sixteenth Lancers; body found in a ruined lighthouse near Beachy Head.'

The clues accumulate; so do the mirrors and the murders . . .

And the suspects.

'Mirror, mirror, on the wall,' mused Sholto Lestrade. 'who's the guiltiest of them all?'

He was to find out.

Book Author

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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