Inspector Lestrade and the Dropped Trapeze Artiste
Inspector Lestrade The little sallow, rat-faced, dark-eyed fellow was a Police Inspector at Scotland Yard. Most people would consider him to look more like a member of the criminal classes than of the ones set to catch them in their nefarious ways. Inspector Lestrade was a lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking. Few people knew what his initial, G, stood for. George? Geoffrey? Gregory? No, it was shameful Gaylord. In those days, in London, a gay woman was a prostitute: the...
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