Inspector Lestrade

G. Lestrade
Sherlock Holmes character
Inspector Lestrade arresting a suspect, by Sidney Paget.
First appearance	A Study in Scarlet
Last appearance	"The Adventure of the Three Garridebs"
Created by	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Gender	Male
Title	Detective Inspector
Nationality	British

Inspector G. Lestrade, or Mr. Lestrade (pronunciation: /lɛˈstreɪd/ or /lɛˈstrɑːd/), is a fictional character appearing in several of the Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle used the name of a friend from his days at the University of Edinburgh, a Saint Lucian medical student, Joseph Alexandre Lestrade. In "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box", Lestrade's first initial is revealed to be G. He is described as "a little sallow rat-faced, dark-eyed fellow" in A Study in Scarlet and "a lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking," in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery". He was summarised by H. Paul Jeffers in the following words:

"He is the most famous detective ever to walk the corridors of Scotland Yard, yet he existed only in the fertile imagination of a writer. He was Inspector Lestrade. We do not know his first name, only his initial: G. Although he appears thirteen times in the immortal adventures of Sherlock Holmes, nothing is known of the life outside the Yard of the detective whom Dr. Watson described unflatteringly as sallow, rat-faced, and dark-eyed and whom Holmes saw as quick and energetic but wholly conventional, lacking in imagination, and normally out of his depth—the best of a bad lot who had reached the top in the CID by bulldog tenacity."