La Strada

Inspector La Strada was a police officer in Hanover, Atlantis in the late 19th century. Like many in the upper strata of Atlantean society, La Strada hated the House of Universal Devotion, a religion established in Atlantis 50 years prior. His hatred was such that La Strada became a leader of a conspiracy to destroy the House by framing it for the murders of various critics.

La Strada and his group overreached themselves when they hired the famous British detective Athelstan Helms to investigate the murders, believing that he would be convinced by the manufactured evidence. Instead, Helms and his associate James Walton unraveled the conspiracy when Thetford police sergeant, Casimir Karpinski, clumsily murdered another critic, Benjamin Joshua Morris just after the hapless fellow had met with Helms and Watson. Helms confronted Karpinski, who, at a press conference, fingered La Strada. La Strada attempted to murder Karpinski on the spot, but was subdued by an attentive reporter.