Inspector Lestrade - Other Appearances

Other Appearances

• Inspector Lestrade is a logic puzzle game online through Everett Kaser Software.

• In the alternate history novel Anno Dracula, Lestrade becomes one of the new-born during the reign of the Prince Consort, and is one of the investigators assigned to the murderer known as "Silver Knife" (who is actually John Seward).

• Lestrade is briefly mentioned in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume I.

• Lestrade is a recurring character in the Moonstone Books versions of Sherlock Holmes Adventures, with varying degrees of competency. His "We're proud of you" speech is adapted for a scene in Holmes' birthday in "Return of the Devil."

• In the TV show Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century one of the main characters was Inspector Beth Lestrade, a descendant who is quite efficient in her own way and has inherited Doctor Watson's diaries.

• In "Bat Attack/The Ballad of Reading Gaol" the DWAM Comic strip adventures, Lestrade is aided in a case by the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler. When the Doctor wishes his name out of the case to Queen Victoria Rose's suggestion of "Sherlock" gives Lestrade a pseudonym.

• A Search Engine, the Inspector Lestrade, is used by MacIntosh, a "fast, lightweight meta searcher."

• "The Inspector Lestrade Award" is a rising term among message boards for a person who is "almost correct." It has shown up on zdnet and "Bad Astronomy and the Universe Today" forum

• The Peterson Pipes company has a Sherlock Holmes (Return) Series of handmade pipes with silverwork. Two Lestrade pipes are in the collection.

• He appears in the book series The Boy Sherlock Holmes as the son of a ferret-faced inspector by the same name who dislikes Sherlock greatly.

• In the novel The Canary Trainer, Sherlock Holmes uses "Inspector Lestrade" as an alias while investigating the phantom of the Paris Opera while incognito.

• As a Non-player character in the Sherlock (video game) computer adventure game.