Inspector Hazlerigg

Inspector Hazlerigg is a police detective created by the British mystery writer Michael Gilbert who appears in six books published between 1947 and 1958, in both novels and numerous short stories. In his first appearance, in the Golden Age mystery novel Close Quarters, Hazlerigg is a Chief Inspector at New Scotland Yard in London. By the final novel in the series, Fear to Tread, he has become a Chief Superintendent. The first time we see him in Close Quarters he is "a thick square man with a brick-red face". A few pages further, after he raises an imaginary gun to his shoulder and fires it, a character thinks that he looks like "a jolly red-faced farmer out for a day's sport".