13 Facts About Inspector Lestrade

Detective Inspector G Lestrade, or Mr Lestrade, is a fictional character appearing in several of the Sherlock Holmes stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Inspector Lestrade is a determined but conventional Scotland Yard detective who consults Sherlock Holmes on many cases, and is the most prominent police character in the Sherlock Holmes series.

Inspector Lestrade has been played by many actors in adaptations based on the Sherlock Holmes stories in film, television, and other media.

Inspector Lestrade is mentioned in the novel The Sign of the Four, though he doesn't appear in it.

Inspector Lestrade is initially doubtful about Holmes's methods, and he suggests that Holmes is "too much inclined to be cocksure" in "The Adventure of the Norwood Builder".

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Inspector Lestrade is "indifferent and contemptuous" of Holmes's exploration in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery".

In "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box", Holmes remarks that Inspector Lestrade's tenacity "has brought him to the top at Scotland Yard".

Inspector Lestrade was described by H Paul Jeffers in the following words:.

Inspector Lestrade is the most famous detective ever to walk the corridors of Scotland Yard, yet he existed only in the fertile imagination of a writer.

Inspector Lestrade is described as "a little sallow rat-faced, dark-eyed fellow" in A Study in Scarlet.

Klinger estimated that Holmes was born in 1854; together with Holstein's theory, this would suggest that Inspector Lestrade may have been born between 1842 and 1844.

Doyle seems to have acquired Inspector Lestrade's name from a fellow student at the University of Edinburgh, Joseph Alexandre Inspector Lestrade, who was a Saint Lucian medical student.

Similar to Inspector Lestrade, Japp is described as "a little, sharp, dark, ferret-faced man" in Christie's 1920 novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles.