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Lestrade

bungling Scotland Yard foil to Sherlock Holmes. [Br. Lit.: Payton, 387]

See : Sleuthing

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Lestrade would have noted even so self-evident a thing as that.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context

Lestrade had produced two candles, and the policemen had uncovered their lanterns.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context

We all three shook hands, and I saw at once from the reverential way in which Lestrade gazed at my companion that he had learned a good deal since the days when they had first worked together.

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context

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