Lestrade and the Devil's Own (Inspector Lestrade, #14)

Book fourteen in the Inspector Lestrade series.

'From his brimstone bed at the break of day,

A-walking the Devil is gone,

To visit his snug little farm, the earth,

And see how his stock goes on.'

Coleridge and Southey

'Sholto Joseph Lestrade, I am arresting you on suspicion of the murder of Mrs Millicent Millichip on January 13th last in the City of Westminster.'

Lestrade had never been arrested before. Neither had he faced the drop. But when a woman died in his arms in the middle of a London p...