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'You're promising me a peaceful one, eh ? This Year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Ten ? Let's hope you 're right.'
Unfortunately his men can't fulfil Superintendent Lestrade's wish. Nor can his daughter Emma, who moments later brings him the news of a tragic boating accident involving members of her family.
In fact, Lestrade's lot is definitely not a happy one: he has a number of vicious murders to solve, including that of a man hanged in a church bell tower, of a potential cross-Channel swimmer and of his old sparring partner, Dr Watson. Anarchists threaten the peace of Europe and the whole of the Yard is looking for 'Peter the Painter'.
On top of all this, Lestrade is roped in to help with the plans for the Coronation of George V; his daughter is in love ; and Inspector Walter Dew needs help with the disappearance of a certain Belle Crippen.
And while Lestrade has his hands full, a violent London cabbie lies in wait for the Assistant Commissioner; a Mr Frederick Seddon is letting out the top flat of his house to elderly spinsters; and new bride Sarah Rose wanders forlornly around the National Gallery waiting for George Joseph Smith.
M J Trow's bubbling style and wit with which he has already enchanted readers in The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade, Brigade, and, most recently, Lestrade and the Hallowed House, are again in appearance in this delightful kaleidoscope of fact and fantasy.
book reviews
- Oxford Times
'Lestrade and the Leviathan ... is as skilful and as funny as its predecessors, a work of intellectual handymanliness for which no joke is too large or too small. Lestrade sails off on The Titanic: one hopes that he will trample his way over the women and children on the way to the lifeboats and re-emerge again.' - Yorkshire Evening Post
‘Richly humorous, Lestrade has quickly become one of fiction’s favourite detectives.’ - Bloodhound
'It is all terrific fun, spun around a wealth of period detail and personages... There are some very clever throwaway gags and you will not fail to be taken in by one perfectly-judged piece of comic misdirection.'
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