Rick Mills

“The examining magistrate bowed Marriott and Humphries into two of the fragile-looking chairs of the room. Then he took Littlejohn and introduced him to the surgeon who was still scribbling notes at the bedside. A busy little man with a fair complexion and pale blue eyes. A ragged moustache crossed his upper lip and he wore old-fashioned pince-nez clipped on his nose and held for safety by a chain which hooked round his ear. ‘Doctor Murols, the resident surgeon here. He has been attending to Mr. Dawson since he was admitted.’ Murols was a little fusspot. He seemed reluctant to part from his fountain pen and official forms. As he wrote he made little grunting noises and kept sitting back to survey his handwriting”
― George Bellairs, The Classic Detective Novels. Inspector Littlejohn Mysteries (7 Books). Illustrated: Outrage on Gallows Hill, The Crime At Halfpenny Bridge, Death On the ... The Case of the Demented Spiv and others