Lestrade and the Leviathan (1987)
Story Type: Parody / Extra-canonical adventure of Inspector Lestrade
Canonical Characters: Inspector Lestrade; Dr. Watson
Historical Characters: Hawley Harvey Crippen; Ethel Le Neve; Leon Beron; Steinie Morrison; Frederick Seddon; Margaret Seddon; George Joseph Smith; Sarah Freeman; Alfred Bowes; Sir Edward Henry; Superintendent Frank Froest; Walter Dew; Inspector Elias Bower; Inspector Alfred Ward; Inspector John Kane; Captain Lawrence Oates; Peter Piatkow (Schtern); George Gardstein; Joseph Levi; Fritz Svaars; Luba Milstein; Eliza Barrow; Seddon's Children; Sergeant Arthur Mitchell; Cora Crippen; Bernard Spilsbury; Inspector Charles Stockley Collins; Captain Kendall; Inspector Frederick Wensley; Winston Churchill; Clementine Churchill; Superintendent Patrick Quinn; Frederick Macmillan; Maurice Macmillan; Rudyard Kipling; Hannah Williams; Ernie Grant; W.T. Stead; Arthur Conan Doyle; Robert Churchill; Baron Fisher; Mata Hari; Freda Wilkins; Lady Louisa Henry; George V; Tsar Nicholas II; Bessie Mundy; (Edward VII)
Other Characters: Chemist; Sol; Removals Men; Mary Chater; Gallery Attendant; Carriage office Clerk; Scotland Yard Constables; Sergeant Horner; Lestrade's Constable; Emma Bandicoot-Lestrade; Harry Bandicoot; Nettles; Trap Driver; Letitia Bandicoot; Ivo Bandicoot; Oilskinned Man; Lieutenant Ballard Hook; Fishermen; Deal Constable; Deal Sergeant; Deal Inspector; Chief Constable of Kent; Deal Constables; The Guild of Music Hall Ladies; Chairwoman; Captain Algy Vavasour; Sergeant Tom 'Buildings' Peabody; Sergeant Blevvins; Miss Hinchcliffe; William Percy Hinchcliffe; Equerry; Sergeant Dickens; Reverend Cuthbert Auldwinkle; Sergeant Jones; Thomas Portnoy; Bellringers; Constable Crabbe; Crippen's Patients; Fanny Berkeley; Constable Williams; Constable Glynn; Philomena Marchment; Wardresses; Isadora; Hansom Driver; Imtali; Sir Clive Marchment; Palm Court Orchestra; Bioscope Constables; Bioscope Crowd; William Hepplewhite; Miss Fitzgibbon; Constable; Man in Bioscope; Arnold Truscott; Pentonville Doctor; Warders; Quinn's Men; Lieutenant Jamie Snagge; Sidney Street Sergeant; Sidney Street Crowds; Scots Guards; Wensley's Men; Churchill's Constables; Firemen; Horse Artillery; Florence Fox; Jemima Artois; Haverstock's Staff; Junior Clerk; Chinese Men; Opium Smokers; Haverstock Irons; Greek Street Constables; Sergeant; Passers-by; Morgue Attendant; Boys; Baker Street Lady; Bognor Ladies; Bognor Constables; Sightseers; Andrew Urchfont McAbendroth; Inspector Hawkesmore; Nye Timber Waiter; Dr. Sworn; Wimbledon Plainclothes Men; Wimbledon Sergeant; Golf Club Members; Admiralty Men; Commodore Nigel Harp-Greavesley; Sailor; Ryde Cabbie; Parkhurst Warders; Endsleigh Landlord; Landlord's Wife; Hermione Henry; Henry's Chauffeur; Helen Henry; Old Sailor; Portsmouth Sightseers; The Round Tower; Naval Review Crowds; Queen Anne's Gate Guard; Petty Officer Tingle; (Binky Hobsbaum; Rupert Bandicoot; George Septimus Holliday; Mr. & Mrs. Nash)
Date: January, 1910 - April, 1912
Locations: A Park; A Bus; Lewis & Bowers Chemists; Whitechapel; Osborne Street; The Warsaw Restaurant; Tollington Park; The National Gallery; Clapham; The Public Carriage office; Scotland Yard; The Horse's Collar; Somerset; Huish Episcopi; Bandicoot Hall; Lilstock; The Parrett Estuary; Stert Flats; Taunton; Victoria Station; Kent; St. Margaret's Bay; Deal; The Bowling Green Public House; The Public Baths; Cliffe; Piccadilly; The Cavalry Club; Settles Street; Fingalsham; The Aldwych; St. Clement Danes Church; The Coal Hole Public House; Windsor; Surrey; Box Hill; Islington; Hilldrop Crescent; Albion House; SS Laurentic; The St. Lawrence Seaway; SS Montrose; Canada; the Megantic; Portman Square; The Astoria; Virginia Water; Shaftesbury Avenue; The Bioscope; Pentonville Prison; St. Paul's Cathedral; Clapham Common; Sidney Street; Hawkins Street; Martin's Mansions; St. Martin's Street; Macmillan's Publishers; Greek Street; Bow Street Morgue; Baker Street; Bognor Regis; Nye Timber Hotel; Wimbledon Golf Club; The Admiralty; Portsmouth; The Hard; Isle of Wight; Ryde; Hunnyhill; Parkhurst Prison; Endsleigh Gardens; Camden House Court; Windsor Castle; The Royal Mile; Queen Anne's Gate; HMS Victory; Southampton; The Titanic
Story: Crippen orders poison, Morrison goes to Beron for a job, Smith, alias Rose, abandons his wife in the National Gallery, Seddon advertises for a female lodger, Bowes vows vengeance on Sir Edward Henry, and Lestrade and his colleagues look forward to a peaceful year. Emma takes Lestrade to Bandicoot Hall, where Harry & Letitia are mourning the loss of their son Rupert, along with Holliday, the provost of Eton, in a boating incident. His identical twin, Ivo, survived. Lestrade nearly drowns, looking for signs of Rupert's demise, and meets Hook, who was also involved in the incident, and who Emma is evidently fond of. Some months later, when he is called to look at an unidentified body washed up on a Kent beach, he discovers that the man was shot, not drowned. He continues his investigations into Rupert's disappearance at the Cavalry Club. Miss Hinchcliffe comes to Lestrade to report her missing brother, Percy, a novelist & cross-channel swimmer, Lestrade realises that his was the body found in Kent. Two days after his death, Lestrade receives a message from the late King Edward VII asking him to 'take care of them'. Another body is found hanging from the bell rope in St. Clement Danes, later identified as Portnoy, also a writer, and a friend of Hinchcliffe. Froest asks Lestrade to look into the disappearance of Cora Crippen, Lestrade puts Dew on the case. Another body, this time a woman, is found in a car at Box Hill. Eliza Barrow moves into Seddon's house. Crippen & Le Neve disappear, and Lestrade & Dew dig up Cora's body in the cellar.

The woman in the car is identified as Marchment. Dew arrests Crippen & Le Neve aboard the SS Montrose. Lestrade learns from her companion, Isadora, that Marchment was a rumoured favourite of Edward VII and a suffragist, and he discovers love letters, signed 'J' at her cottage. The next body is found at the Bioscope cinema, identified as Truscott, yet another writer. Attending the funeral of the Houndsditch bank raid victims, Lestrade makes a connection between the bank gang and his murders. Wensley tells him about the Painter, and suggests the bank raid was a diversion for something else. Emma becomes engaged to Hook. Beron is murdered on Clapham Common, and Lestrade is brought into the case by Wensley. He is interviewing Snagge, the final witness to Rupert's disappearance, when he is summoned to the Sidney Street Siege by Churchill. At Macmillan's publishers, Lestrade learns more about the murdered authors, but when he visits Irons, one of Macmillan's readers, in an opium den, the man is murdered. When he returns to Marchment's cottage he finds Snagge there. On his way to interview W.T. Stead, he is informed of another mutilated body, found on the beach at Bognor, identified as McAbendroth, like the other victims, a member of the Peace Movement.

Dr. Watson is shot from a plane while playing golf with Doyle & Stead. Ward consults Lestrade over the death of Barrow, Seddon's lodger. Lestrade is summoned to the Admiralty, where he learns that Hook is with Naval Intelligence, and they suspect a German agent, probably the Painter, of the murders. Lestrade is photographed in a compromising position with Mata Hari. Bowes shoots Henry; Henry's daughter sees another man with a gun on the other side of the street, aiming at Lestrade. He learns from the King that the message he received from King Edward referred to an assassination attempt, by a German using the same type of gun as that used in the present series of murders. He also discovers that Tsar Nicholas is in England, and realises that an assassination is planned at the Naval Review at Portsmouth, which he must set out to stop.

Lestrade and the Dead Man's Hand (1992)
Story Type: Parody / Extra-canonical adventure of Inspector Lestrade
Canonical Characters: Inspector Lestrade; (Dr Watson)
Historical Characters: Christian de Wet; Leander Starr Jameson; Frederick Abberline; Walter Dew; Nimrod Frost; Edward Marshall Hall; Arizona John Burke; Detective Inspector Thicke; W.G. Grace; The Bishop of Bath & Wells; Prince Ranjitsinhji; Frederick Hitch; Marie-François Goron; H.G. Wells; Jane Robbins; Jerome K. Jerome; Squire Bancroft Bancroft; Mrs Bancroft; Johnston Forbes-Robertson; Francis Galton; Sir Basil Mott; C.E. Spagnoletti; Marquess of Queensberry; Aubrey Beardsley; (General Roberts; Friedrich Schiess; George Arliss; C. Aubrey Smith)
Other Characters: Lieutenant John Sleigh; Men of the 32nd Pioneers; Sanji; Gupta; Lieutenant Hay-Winthrop; William Sleigh; Croajingolong; Tom; Mr Dundee; Arthur Sleigh; Farmers; Mine Workers; Rifleman; Mr Whitecross; Mr Tait; Bantu Telegram Delivery Boy; Ermintrude Abberline; Postman; Constable Lordjohn Russell; Coonstable Bromley; Wormwood Scrubs Warder; George Culdrose; Igor; Jane Hollander (Jane Hauptmann / Mrs Sun That Warms The Mountains); Sergeant William 'Old Birdie' Bird; Comte de la Warre (Pierre La Touche; Henri Chauvon; The Abbé Fiennes; The Monster of Montparnasse); Hauptmann Wolfgang Bruno; Michail Bogdanovitch; Sun That Warms The Mountains; Superintendent Prufrock Tomelty; Melville Lavender; Sergeant Dixon; Growler; Lift Attendant; Emily Bellamy; Commuters; Ticket Inspector; Clergyman & Wife; Cabman; Bandicoot & Piglet Landlord; Yokels; Bandicoot's Servants; Cricket Crowd; Harry Bandicoot; Emma Bandicoot-Lestrade; Letitia Bandicoot; Nanny Balsam; Ivo Bandicoot; Rupert Bandicoot; William Bellamy; John Arslightly; Cricketers; Hooch; Gotham; Scratting; Cower; Umpire; T.A. Liesinsdad; David Newman; Ezekiel Ledbetter; Barry Bucknell; Albert Wedgewood; Monthly Exposure Photographer; Constable Corkindale; Edward Bayreuth; Horse and Collar Landlord; Verity True; Miss Dalrymple; Agnes 'Trottie' True; Mr Hathersuch; Readers; Orchestra; George Cross; Clarence Holdsworth; Chorus Line; Hospital Patients; Stanley; Blackfriars Cleaner; Henrietta Fordingbridge; Surbiton Doctor; Coachman; Prince of Wales Ticket Seller; Paid Clapper; Kennedy; Garrick Members; Flunkey; Fanny Chattox; Stockwell Station Supervisor; Hecuba; Sir Roger Foulsham; Fortinbras; Boxing Crowd; Boxers; Maurice "The Masher" Melhuish; Master of Ceremonies; Policeman; Villiers Street Urchins; Georgina; Clarence; Lucky Heather Seller; Gannet's Waitress; Ex-Inspector Ivan Corner; Doctor McKechnie; Asylum Inmates; Hephzibah; Daniel Sleigh; Serpentine Boys; Blackfriars Cleaner; Stockwell Liftman; Rev. Bartholomew Dutts; Hanbury; Sidney Hubbard; Robinson; Charles Grenfell; (Mr Wu; Inspector Julius Greatorex; Sarah Culdrose; Amelia; Sarah Culdrose's Mother; Old Gonad; Mr Hollander; Inspector "Fairy" Cottingley; Mrs Dunnose; Railway Guard; PC Dogberry; PC Verges; 'Legbreaker' Lawson; Litchfield; Morag Finisterre; Friedrich Schiess; Emma Hitch; Mrs Cadogan; Captain Penn-Symons; Examining Magistrate; Quincey; Constable Hockney; Train Guard; David Appleyard; Constable McIntyre; Constable Burgess)
Date: March - July, 1895
Locations: India; The Hindu Kush; Gilgit; Australia; The Dandenong; Melbourne; South Africa; The Abberline Residence; Scotland Yard; Wormwood Scrubs; Old Montague Street Mortuary; Earls Court; 31, Quex Road, Kilburn; Finchley Central; Railway Police Headquarters; Maiden Lane; Melville's Museum; Elephant & Castle Station; Paddington Station; Bath; Huish Episcopi; The Bandicoot & Piglet; Bandicoot Hall; Whitehall; The Horse and Collar; Stockwell Station; Camberwell Library; Theatre; Hospital; The Black Museum; Edmonton Street; Charing Cross Station; Blackfriars Station; The Thames; Surbiton General Hospital; Walworth Road; Prince of Wales Theatre; Garrick Street; The Garrick Club; Stockwell; The Embankment; 35, Duke Street; The Pelican Club; Villiers Street; The Gaiety; Royal Arcade; Gannet's Tea Rooms; Sandwich; Asylum; Hephzibah's Tea Rooms; Hyde Park
Story: The repercussions of an article in the Times send three men, all named Sleigh, rushing back to England from locations all over the Empire. After a second body is found on a London Train, Commissioner Frost sends Lestrade to question the husband of the first victim, arrested by Abberline and now in Wormwood Scrubs. The second victim's complex domestic arrangements lead Lestrade to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. After Lestrade begins directing his attentions towards the railway aspects of the murders, a third victim is found. Following up a lead, Lestrade finds himself playing in a cricket match facing W.G. Grace and Ranjitsinhji. A fourth murder takes him to the library (where he first encounters "Trottie" True who is to join him in the investigation) and the ballet, while another lead seems to point back to the defence of Rorke's Drift. Meanwhile, Goron, head of the Sûreté, arrives in England seeking the Monster of Montparnasse, who has already featured in Lestrade's investigations. Lestrade also learns that one of his suspects has been dead for eleven years, and is swept over a weir with H.G. Wells before auditioning for Hamlet. After another murder, Lestrade discovers that a replacement guard was working on three of the murder nights, but after Frost receives a deputation from the railways, he is suspended from duty and Abberline put in charge of the case. Continuing his investigations privately, he finds himself forced into the boxing ring by the Marquess of Queensberry, and entering London's shady underworld, while a series of men with foreign accents continue to identify successive victims. An old colleague of Lestrade's father claims that the murderer is "Blackfriars Dan", the only man he never caught, recently escaped from the sanatorium his wife had committed him to. But it is only after Trottie disappears that Lestrade comes face to face with the killer on an out of control underground train.

NOTE: Detective Inspector Thicke is here named "Johnnie", the real Thicke, who was involved in the Ripper investigations, was "William".

Lestrade and the Sign of Nine (1992)
Story Type: Parody / Extra-canonical adventure of Inspector Lestrade
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Inspector (Sholto) Lestrade; Mrs Hudson()
Historical Characters: Richard Norman Shaw; James Monro; Elizabeth Graves; Wilkie Collins; Harry Bull; Reverend Henry Bull; Millie Bull; Ethel Bull; Marie Lairre; Jane Morris; William Morris; Sir Hugh Childers; Henry Matthews; Chief Inspector John Littlechild; Charles Warren; Lady Warren; (Daniel B. Wesson; Colonel Henderson; Arthur Conan Doyle; Walter Dew; Caroline Graves; Sunex Amures)
Other Characters: Clarence; Arthur; Workman; Cabbie 443; Protestors; Policemen; Sergeant Regan; Constable Carter; Count Ortega Y Gomez; Assistant Commissioner Rodney; Sergeant George George; Constable Launcelot Tyrrell; Constable Godolphin 'Pad' Green; Lemuel Austin; Jack; Passers-by; Constable Tom Widger; Sergeant Smith; Chief Inspector Edward Towgrass; South Mimms Constables; Burden; Fussock; Squire Osbaldeston Ralston; Ian Ralston; Kelvin Ralston; Lammergeyer's Caretaker; Mrs Fussock; Constable Matthew Spatchcock; Jane Ratcliffe; Marylebone Constables; Inspector Tom Berkeley; Dickson; Constable Albert 'Nutty' Slack; Byngham Batchelor; Senor Alfonso; Henry Archer; Ambrose Matters; Welsh Driver; Inquest Crowd; Detective-Inspector Mortimer; Mr Pryce; Mr Jenkins; Constable Myrddin Williams; Ranulf Guest; Will Dodd; Galamorgan Yeomanry Men; Captain Gerontius Dance; Isaac 'Happy' Lewis; Miners; Sergeant Harris; Hettie; Dr Trefussis; Amos Flower / Levi 'Pretty Boy' Partridge; Inspector Flannel; Constable 'Topsy' Turvey; Little Old Lady; Chop House Waiter; Fournier Street Prostitute; Nichol Thugs; Ezra; Chiv Eagle; Hymie; Sir Anthony Rivers; Foskett; Roger Derringham, QC; Evelyn Ruggles-Brise; George Dixon; Hounslow Policemen; Sergeant Pentridge; Constable Head; Constable Bolger; Dr Willie; Hounslow Bodies; Baker Street Toff; Baker Street Neighbour; Constable Huxtable; Police Revue Performers; Master of Ceremonies; Police Revue Audience; Constable Joe Tinker; The Amazing Armbrusters; Constable Elton; Culpepper's Crooning Chocolate Coloured Coons; Prestidge the Prestidigitator / Inspector Reid; Mr Memory Maurice / Sergeant Spettigue; Constable Runciman; Sergeant Whitman; Norman Shaw's Foreman; (Reverend Hereward Rodney; Hubert Gordon, The Bishop of Exeter; Truro Chorister; Mevagissey Verger; Boy; Mrs Riviera; Daisy Porthluney; Hannah Tresilian; Emily Carrick; Daisy's Relative; Mr Porthluney; Mr Tresilian; Mrs Tresilian; Mevagissey Fishermen; Mrs Bunn; Lord Verulam; Reverend Litchen; Davy; Bishop of Llandaff; Squire Cotterell; Mr Hands; Tyndall; Benson Lammergeyer; Will Tattenham; Mrs Spatchcock; Old Mellors; Mildred Berkeley; Henry Blenkinsop; Mr & Mrs Carrick; Carricks' Neighbour; John Nathaniel Wallace Lionel Guest; Dai Evans; Sergeant Owen; Courting Couple; Mrs Leyshon; Fanny Bull; Mrs Shubunkin; Petronella Beatrice Partridge; Partridge's Maid; PC Corbutt; Bickerstaff; Inspector Bernard Brownlow; Sergeant Routledge; Inspector Arbalest; Inspector Walter Andrews; Mrs Andrews; Trumpeter Caedmon Armstrong; Bagster)
Date: 1885 / February 8th - April, 1886
Locations: New Scotland Yard Worksite; Hanover Square; Scotland Yard; Train; Cornwall; Swindon; The Bell; Swindon Central Station; Exeter; Mevagissey; The Happy Traveller; Rectory; 221B, Baker Street; South Mimms; Ralston Hall; St Albans; Lammergeyer's Office; The Pea-Hen; Fishpool Street; Romeland; Marylebone; Lisson Grove; The King Arthur; 89, The Minories; Fleet Street; Quiver Offices; 38, Blandford Square; Cardiff; The Angel; Blaenllechau; Blaenllechau Working Men's Club; Quarry; Guest's House; Pant-y-Girdl; Police Station; Borley Rectory; Sudbury; Market Hill; International Tea Company; Train; Hammersmith; Upper Mall; Chop House; The Nichol; Fournier Street; Nichol Street; Court off Jacob Street; The Temple; King's Bench Walk; Derringham's Chambers; Leman Street Police Station; The Home Office; Hounslow; The Last Post; Baker Street; Conduit Street; Nestling Hall
Story: A headless, armless torso is found in the foundations of New Scotland Yard. Holmes and Watson lie in wait for Count Gomez, when they find themselves surrounded by protesting workers. Lestrade quells the riot by shooting himself in the leg. Warren orders him suspended, but Monro sends him to traffic, where assistant commissioner Rodney sends him to Cornwall to investigate his cousin, Reverend Hereward Rodney's murder. In the local rectory he discovers lewd photos of local girls taken by the Reverend. The curate claims to have seen the Bishop of Exeter fleeing the scene.
Holmes links Rodney's murder to the death of Squire Ralston in South Mimms. Lestrade travels to Ralston Hall, where he learns that the Squire had given the first party since the death of Palmerston twenty-one years earlier. The five guests were the Squire's sons (who have hired Holmes and Watson), two of his bitter enemies and the daughter of another, Admiral Ratcliffe, who died days earlier aboard his ship. The Squire had a violent row with her. Another body turns up in Marylebone, Batchelor, an editor, with a drawing showing a series of squares tucked inside its dentures and a ticket to the Lyceum. Lestrade recalls seeing a similar drawing in the possession of Ralston's butler. His investigations result in the bnurning down of a barber's shop. Tyrrell and Green discover that Emily Carrick, one of the gorls photographed by Rodney, was pregnant and has been taken away by force to Colney Hatch Asylum. Lestrade visits Wilkie Collins, whom Batchelor had called on before his death. Collins suggests that numbers are important in the case, and that the diagram is a maze.
Another murder, of Guest, a mine owner, takes Lestrade to Wales, where he is tied up and has to escape to prevent the slaughter of a group of miners. A copy of the diagram is chalked on the quarry wall near where the body was found. The next one turns up at Borley Rectory, the most haunted house in Britain, where the gardener has been murdered, and Lestrade has a ghostly encounter. An old lady on a train identifies the diagram as a Nine Men's Morris game, which leads Lestrade to call on William Morris. Having identified the gardener as the 'Napoleon of Crime', Pretty Boy Partridge, Lestrade ventures into the Nichol to find his gang rival Chiv Eagle. While he is there, Sir Anthony Rivers is murdered nearby, and Holmes and Watson are spotted fleeing the crime scene.
Lestrade is summoned to the Home Office, and his office is ransacked. Shortly after, there are a pair of killings at the Last Post Hotel in Hounslow, of the landlord and landlady. The police dig up a further nine garrotted bodies in the garden. Again, Holmes and Watson have been seen in the area, so Lestrade sets a watch on Baker Street, and he and Sergeant George break into 221B. He gives his Sarah Bernhardt in the Police Revue, and it is there, after the performance, that he rounds off the case with the aid of Holmes, Watson and Mrs Hudson.

Lestrade and the Kiss of Horus (1995)
Story Type: Parody / Extra-canonical adventure of Inspector Lestrade
Canonical Characters: Inspector Lestrade;
Historical Characters: Tutankhamun; Ankhasenamun; Ay; Chief Constable Fred Wensley; C.K. Simpson; Robert Fabian; Walter Hambrook; Evelyn Herbert; Lord Carnarvon; Lady Carnarvon; Dr. Johnson; Teddy Porchester; Susie; Benito Mussolini; Lee Stack; Aubrey Herbert; Howard Carter; Sidney Smith; Arthur Cruttendon Mace; Alfred Lucas; Henry Burton; Arthur Callender; Alan Henderson Gardiner; Lindsley Foote Hall; Richard Adamson; Arthur Sidney Merton (as Percy Merton); Arthur Weigall; Zagloul Pasha; PC George Storey; Marie Corelli; Suzanne Lenglen; Kathleen McKane; Prince Ali Kemal Fahmy Bey; Marguerite Fahmy Bey; Sir Edward Marshall Hall; (Horemheb)
Characters Based On Historical Figures: Alain Le Clerk (Georges Benedite); Aaron G. String the Third (Jay Gould)
Other Characters: Kat; Haph; Kat's Servants; The Nameless One; Emma Bandicoote-Lestrade; Inspector Norroy Macclesfield; Inspector Gerald McNulty; Albert Weez; McNulty's Constable; William Pargetter; Grinder; Hoof; Methuselah; Dimples; Constable Rockliffe; Edward Jones; Jacob Hoare; Colin Smedley; Dicky Tickner; Greenham Women; Flunkey at Highclere; Jack Holinshed; Tilly Holinshed; Researcher; Floozy; Old Woman; Veronica; Captain Guy Mainwaring; Paris Airport officials; Italian Paparazzi; Cairo Customs officials; Kalil; Hassim; Mubarak; Mahmoud; Alain Le Clerk; Carter's Fellahin; Shepheard's Waiters; Tom Guest; Reginald Keen; Pomeroy Nettlefold; Dead Prostitute; Mustapha; Street Urchins; Bedouins; Clifford Hanger; Winter Palace Maître d'Hôtel; Carter's Waiters; Aaron G. String the Third; String's Fellah; Emil Lamartine; Mrs. Ralph; Steamer Captain; Cairo Crowds; Ghaffirs; Ghaffir Sergeant; Shepheard's Major Domo; German Guest; Shepheard's Guests; Zagloul's Men; Blind Beggar; The Hussain Brothers; Ahmed; Airport Mob; Fanny Lestrade; Madison; Wembley Crowd; Wembley Policemen; Wembley officials; Wembley Chief Superintendant; The Band of the Coldstream Guards; Mounted Policemen; Bolton Wanderers Captain; Bolton Wanderers Vice-Captain; Algie; Algie's Mother; Davies; Lift Operator; Fat Lady in Lift; Linklater; Canteen Assistant; Canteen Customers; Lady Policemen; Miss Pargetter; Scotland Yard Switchboard Operator; Police Guards; Savoy Guards; Savoy Flunkies; Savoy Maître d'Hôtel; Police at The Savoy; Arthur Mariani; Cabin; Costa; French Maid; Said Ernani; Sylvester Alexander; Dr. Gordon; Eddie; Spotty Youth; Trixie Dilnot; K Division Constable; Signor Esparto; Smenkhare; Horemheb; The Holinsheds' Son; (Hortense Weigall; Corinna Smith)
Date: 1323BC & 17th March - July, 1923
Locations: Thebes; Virginia Water; Lestrade's House; Bart's; Scotland Yard; Emma's Austin Seven; Newbury; Greenham Common; Highclere; The British Museum; Croydon Airport; A De Havilland DH66 Hercules; Paris; Lyons; L'Aviateur Fatigué Hotel, Rue De La Guillotière; Rome; Cairo; Sharia El-Kubri; Museum of Egyptian Antiquities; Luxor; Netherby & Netherby, Rue Nueve; Shepheard's Hotel; Beni Suef; Abu Qurgas; Winter Palace Hotel; Valley of the Kings; Tutankhamun Excavation Site; Tutankhamun's Tomb; A Nile Steamer; Cairo Airport; Palermo; Carter's Mother's House; Wembley Stadium; Wimbledon; The Strand; The Savoy Hotel; The Coal Hole Pub; Fleet Street; Daily Mail offices; Greek Street, Soho; Ships In the Night Agency; Stratford-At-Bow; Stratford-On-Avon; Mason Croft; A Gondola on the Avon; The Grand Hotel
Story: Tutankhamun is concerned about the advance of Horemheb's armies, worried that the general intends to kill him. His wife is giving him trouble, and having an affair with his adviser, Ay. Ay kills Tutankhamun, who is embalmed by Kat.

Lestrade, now retired is called by Fred Wensley, to look into the murder of Weez, a night watchman at Bart's. The young Simpson tells Lestrade that Weez was killed in the pharmacy next to the poisons cupboard. The pharmacist says that a bottle of potassium cyanide is missing. At Scotland Yard, Wensley tells Lestrade that this is the third similar murder, and that he believes that someone on the force is involved, hence Lestrade's involvement. Emma gets a telegram from Evelyn Herbert. When she & Lestrade arrive at Highclere they meet the Holinsheds who tell them that the telegram was from them, that Evelyn is in Cairo, and explain the strange incidents after the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb, including the death of Evelyn's father, Lord Carnarvon. They ask Lestrade to fly out with them to investigate. Lestrade tells Wensley that he will take three of the suspect policemen, Macclesfield, Fabian & Hambrook, with him.

The first death after Lestrade's arrival is French Archaeologist Alain Le Clerk, apparently of a broken neck after a fall from his horse, after visiting the Tutankhamun dig. Pathologist Sidney Smith, however, tells Lestrade that he was poisoned with henbane. Lestrade & Holinshed travel towards Luxor by camel before being picked up by publicist Hanger, who tells them of the events of the night of Carnarvon's death. Journeying on they arrive at Carter's excavation site. As Lestrade questions his team, new arrivals show up including the American millionaire, String, and Lamartine of the Surêté. Lestrade has Carnarvon's razor checked for poison, and Burton finds traces of henbane. String goes on a shooting spree, firing at Lestrade, then killing himself. Again henbane seems to be the cause. Weigall, the reporter tells Lestrade of a tablet found in the tomb bearing a curse.

Emma & Macclesfield arrive to take the wounded Lestrade, and String's body, back to Cairo on a Nile steamer (apparently the one from Christie's Death On the Nile). When they arrive the city is in turmoil, and they are given an armed guard. Hanger is acting morosely, Lestrade is delirious, both recover after vomiting. At Shepheard's they receive notice that Fabian & Hambrook have been kidnapped by Zagloul, who demands that Lestrade & Carter come to the Mosque El-Muayyad. Carter refuses to go, so Lestrade goes in his place, with Macclesfield pretending to be Lestrade. The men are freed, but Hanger is shot by one of Zagloul's men. Zagloul is wounded and put under house arrest for transportation to England. Lestrade's party, Zagloul & Carter flee an angry mob at the airport and face engine failure over the Nile Delta before making it back to England, where they discover that the engines were sabotaged.

Lestrade decides that the murders are being carried out to prevent Egypt's treasures from being taken out of the country. He believes that Lady Carnarvon & Carter are still at risk, and travels to Wembley with Emma. Lestrade helps quell the crowds in an over-packed stadium, but Emma is stabbed in the back by a foreign woman. There is another death at Bart's, this time Pargetter, the pharmacist, and Lestrade realises that this and the former one are related to the Egypt murders, not the "old fogey" case. Later there is a shooting at the Savoy Hotel, the Holinsheds' friend Prince Fahmy has been killed by his wife. Weigall was with them on the evening of the shooting. Finally after a visit from Marshall Hall, and a visit to Marie Corelli, Lestrade finds that the solution lies right back in Tutankhamun's brief reign.