Inspector Lestrade

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Inspector Lestrade

fictional character

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Article History

Inspector Lestrade, fictional character, the perennially confounded Scotland Yard inspector who must request the help of Sherlock Holmes in the Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Kathleen Kuiper.