Lestrade and the Brother of Death

Inspector Lestrade, #13

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  • Book
  • thirteen
  • in
  • the
  • Inspector
  • Lestrade
  • sereies.'I
  • cannot
  • sing
  • the
  • old
  • songsI
  • sang
  • long
  • years
  • ago,For
  • heart
  • and
  • voice
  • would
  • fail
  • meAnd
  • foolish
  • tears
  • would
  • flow.'ClaribelRecovering
  • 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
  • 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's
  • been
  • sent.So
  • begins
  • one
  • of
  • Sholto
  • Lestrade's
  • most
  • mystifying
  • cases;
  • a
  • case
  • that
  • encompasses
  • not
  • only
  • the
  • present,
  • but
  • the
  • past.
  • Lestrade
  • walks
  • 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
  • a
  • satisfactory
  • conclusion
  • and
  • that
  • hold
  • other
  • clues
  • as
  • to
  • who
  • the
  • sender
  • of
  • the
  • letters
  • is
  • because
  • whoever
  • it
  • is,
  • it
  • is
  • a
  • cold
  • blooded killer.
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