They were frequent allies, and sometimes antagonists, of Sherlock Holmes in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous stories ( for instance, Inspector Lestrade ).

In the 1904 Sherlock Holmes story " The Adventure of the Second Stain ", the term is still used in a completely non-sexual context ( Inspector Lestrade is threatening a misbehaving constable with " finding himself in Queer Street ", i. e., in this context, being severely punished ).

In the 1946 thriller Terror by Night, Sherlock Holmes ( Basil Rathbone ), about to board a train, encounters Inspector Lestrade ( Dennis Hoey ) on the same train, ready to presumably go on a vacation, and loaded down with fishing gear.

The presence of Chief Inspector Japp, a close " literary descendant " of Holmes's Inspector Lestrade, fleshed out Christie's adoption of the Holmes paradigm.

M. J. Trow in " The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade " ( ISBN 978-0895263438 ) recreates each of the cautionary tales as the work of a serial killer.

Watson knocks down the villain, while Holmes whistles for Inspector Lestrade and the police.

They are led by Inspector Lestrade, who arrests the gunman.

Frank Finlay plays Inspector Lestrade, a part he had previously portrayed in the similar 1965 film A Study in Terror in which Quayle likewise played a supporting role.

* Frank Finlay ( Inspector Lestrade )

* Detective Inspector Greg Lestrade, a character played by Rupert Graves in the BBC's Sherlock ( TV series )

Lestrade is replaced by Inspector Bradstreet.

Lestrade is replaced by a local policeman, Inspector Lanner, and Charles McCarthy's first name has been changed to Bill.

Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard does not appear ; instead Holmes cooperates with one Inspector Summerby.

Holmes once more solves the puzzle to the chagrin of Inspector Lestrade.

Holmes and Watson discover that Mrs. Cabpleasure has even gone to the police, and Inspector Lestrade is investigating Mr. Cabpleasure also.

Jones co-starred in the 1999 cult favorite cannibal western Ravenous and played Inspector Lestrade in Without a Clue.

Gordon's relationship with Batman as his contact in the police is comparable to the relationship between Sherlock Holmes and Inspector Lestrade.

Set in 22nd Century in New London, Inspector Beth Lestrade of New Scotland Yard is chasing grotesquely deformed French rogue geneticist Martin Fenwick, when she realizes that his companion is none other than the 19th century criminal mastermind, Professor James Moriarty.

As a descendant of the original Inspector Lestrade, Beth has inherited Dr. Watson's journals.

For Holmes, however, it proves rather an elementary case, for he has dealt with other, similar cases, and this one is not so complex to unravel, much as it confuses Dr. Watson, and Inspector Lestrade.

* Sherlock Hound ( Inspector Lestrade )

Inspector G. Lestrade or Mr. Lestrade is a fictional character, a Scotland Yard detective appearing in several of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle.

( For example, when you know that the food package in front of you has the identifier " 2011-09-25T15: 42Z-MFR5-P02-243-45 ", you not only have that data, you also have the metadata that tells you that it was packaged on September 25, 2011, at 3: 42pm UTC, manufactured by Licensed Vendor Number 5, at the Peoria, IL, USA plant, in Building 2, and was the 243rd package off the line in that shift, and was inspected by Inspector Number 45.

In the majority of the cartoons, the Inspector usually always tells Deux-Deux: " Don't say ' Sí ', say ' Oui '", to which Deux-Deux would reply " Sí, I mean ' Oui '".

Also, Inspector Japp tells the two that the key was found near the broken door and that the window was unlatched.

The Chief Inspector tells Mrs. Verloc that he had recovered an overcoat at the scene of the bombing which had the shop's address written on a label.

* The last scene, Wong Yat-fei's wife tells him to thank Inspector Chan.

Miss Marple tells Inspector Davy that she was disappointed to find out that much of the hotel's Edwardian atmosphere is false.

A family cook tells Lecter that the most delicious part of the fish he took from the butcher is the cheeks, unwittingly helping develop part of Lecter's " signature " as a serial killer. Hannibal with a samurai mask. That same evening, he is questioned about the butcher's murder by Inspector Popil ( Dominic West ), a French detective who also lost his family during the war.

He calls Inspector Byrnes and asks him to come to the apartment, then tells Kit he will pretend to leave the building, secretly return, and hopefully catch the man who has been stalking her.

Nigel comes to Inspector Sharpe and tells him about the missing morphine, but while he is there, Patricia telephones to say that she has discovered something further.

Seeing a photograph of the Inspector, Countess Chandra tells Sleigh that Clouseau visited her several months ago, but claimed his name was Gino Rossi ( the thief who stole the diamond in the last film and was seen fencing it to Countess Chandra at the start of this film when the real Inspector arrived on the scene ).

Inspector Rice questions them and tells them that Mrs Grant was shot with an automatic pistol some five hours earlier in the kitchen.

Inspector Flint superficially accepts this explanation and tells him he can go, only to be confronted at the door by an old woman who claims to have seen him repeatedly stab a woman to death.

In An Autobiography Christie admits, " I was still writing in the Sherlock Holmes tradition – eccentric detective, stooge assistant, with a Lestrade-type Scotland Yard detective, Inspector Japp ".

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

He mentions this when seeking to compare Moriarty to a real-world character that Inspector Alec MacDonald might know, but it is in vain as MacDonald is not so well read as Holmes.

* British writer Colin Dexter, author of the Inspector Morse series of books, wrote a Sherlock Holmes short story " A Case of Mis-Identity ", part of a collection of short stories published under the title " Morse's Greatest Mystery ", in which Watson's practical knowledge of the circumstances of a case outwits the armchair intellectual logic of both Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes.

Highbrow British mysteries including Agatha Christie's Poirot, Cracker, Dalziel and Pascoe, Inspector Morse, Lovejoy, Midsomer Murders, the Joan Hickson Miss Marple series and Sherlock Holmes were also featured ; several of these series were produced in association with A & E.

Colin Dexter, known for writing the Inspector Morse novels, wrote a short story based on this called " A Case of Mis-Identity ", in which Holmes's brother Mycroft is involved in the case's deduction ; in this story, Holmes's theory about the ' Hosmer Angel ' character is the same, while Mycroft deduces that ' Hosmer Angel ' is a fiction created by the mother and daughter to eliminate the step-father, only for Watson to reveal that ' Hosmer Angel ' is actually a real person who suffered an attack due to an illness on the way to his wedding and was treated by Watson shortly before the case was officially presented to Holmes.

Inspector Bardle of the Sussex Constabulary visits Holmes to ask if there is enough evidence to arrest Ian Murdoch.

Holmes and Watson are invited by Scotland Yard Inspector Gregson to accompany him to an ancient country mansion in Derbyshire.

Holmes and Watson are relaxing in their vacation hotel in East Grinstead when Inspector Gregson of Scotland Yard arrives to obtain assistance in a dreadful murder.

Before departing with his prisoner, Inspector Gregson of Scotland Yard shows Holmes and Watson the empty jewel case found concealed in Joliffe's room.

Holmes, Watson and Inspector Hopkins.

Other noted successes include The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes starring Jeremy Brett in the title role, Inspector Morse with John Thaw, Brother Cadfael starring Derek Jacobi, and Prime Suspect starring Helen Mirren.