18 Inspector Lestrade books in order

Detective-Sergeant Sholto Lestrade investigates strange affairs at a popular circus and uncovers evidence of murder under the big top.

What do a lecherous rector, a devious speculator, and a plagiarist novelist have in common?

Book three in the Inspector Lestrade series.

In the year 1888, London was horrified by a series of brutal killings. All the victims were discovered in the same district, Whitechapel, and they were all prostitutes. But they weren’t the only murders to perplex the brains of Scotland Yard. In Brighton,… show more.

It is 1891 and London is still reeling from the horror of the unsolved Jack the Ripper murders when Inspector Sholto Lestrade is sent to the Isle of Wight to investigate a strange corpse found walled up in Shanklin Cline. Lestrade whirls from ballroom and barroom, from vicarage to spiritualist… show more.

Book five in the Inspector Lestrade series.

There is a new broom at Scotland Yard; Nimrod Frost. His first ‘little’ job for Lestrade is to investigate the reported appearance of a lion in Cornwall, a supposed savager of sheep and frightener of men. Hardly a task for an Inspector of… show more.

"Splendidly shaken cocktail of Victorian fact and fiction...Witty, literate, and great fun." - The Times (London)

The first fatality in a series of killings that was to become the most bizarre in the celebrate Victorian Inspector's career.

Britain has entered the 20th Century. Queen Victoria is dead and the Boer War rages on. Inspector Lestrade is called upon to investigate the brutal death of a member of Parliament, the first in a series of bizarre and perplexing murders that leads Lestrade around the country in pursuit of… show more.

Murder is afoot among the footmen of Britain's Royal Household: a servant girl, Amy Macpherson, has been brutally slaughtered. And so Sholto Lestrade of Scotland Yard is once again on the trail of mystery. The intrepid investigator contends with the most baffling clues he has yet encountered. Worse still, everyone… show more.

"Any mystery fan, whether partial to locked rooms, serial killers, period novels or humorous ones, could happily read any of the Lestrades." - Publishers Weekly

The papers call it suicide. The deceased's father doesn't think so. Would England's best athlete really kill himself on the eve of the 1908 Olympic Games?

"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 fill Inspector Lestrade's wish. Nor can his daughter Emma, who brings him news of a tragic boating accident involving members of the family. Lestrade's lot is… show more.

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

In this, the final installment of the Lestrade Mystery Series, Lestrade is arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman dies in his arms on the streets of London.

England in 1920 is a land fit for heroes. So why is one of those heroes found dead in a dingy London hotel? And why does his war record show that he has been missing, presumed killed in action, for three years?
The deceased is none other than the fiance… show more.

"The complex plot is a clever send-up of the classic Victorian mystery. Wonderfully entertaining." - Toronto Star

Book seventeen in the Inspector Lestrade series.

Everybody, they say, has a book in them. Retired Chief Inspector Walter Dew certainly did. And it took him back to the good old days, when coppers lived in station houses, that nice Mr Campbell-Bannerman was at Number Ten and Britain had the… show more.

Book eighteen in the Inspector Lestrade series.

Many readers of the Lestrade books wonder what is fact and what is fiction – and the author is delighted that they can’t always tell! So, for all the readers out there who have ever asked that question, here is the World of… show more.