Book seven in the Inspector Lestrade series.He was in his fortythird year and kneedeep in murder. Well, what was new? Sholto Lestrade wouldnt really have it any other way.The first fatality in a series of killings which was to become the most bizarre in the celebrated Inspectors career, was a captain of the 2nd Life Guards, found battered over the head in the Thames at Shadwell Stair, an Ashanti War medal wedged between his teeth. Lestrades next summons was to the underground caves of Wookey Hole where the demise of an Egyptologist a scarab clamped between his molars prompted the question can a man dead for a thousand years reach beyond the grave and commit murder?The further death from a cadaveric spasm of an enobled young subaltern whilst on picquet duty (this time a locket is his dying mouthful) forces Lestrade to impersonate Lt Lister, Duke of Lancasters Own Yeomanry and into becoming a barrackroom lawyer of incisive command.As the body count rapidly rises, Lestrade, constantly and relievedly touching base with his family, Harry and Letitia Bandicoot of the Hall, Huish Episcopi, varies a volatile lifestyle with dinner at Blenheim Palace a disastrous cycle tour ending in a night in gaol a nearfatal trip in an air balloon and masterful mediation in East End gang warfare on the Ratcliffe Highway.Eventually, some seven cadavers later, things begin to fit into place and the final conundrum emerges who or what is Coquette Perameles?

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