Dr Rigg

In the novel The Clocks, Dr Rigg is a police surgeon in the town of Crowdean. He testified at the inquest into the death of R. H. Curry. He placed the time of death at around half past one to half past two. Death had been caused by stabbing with a thin, sharp knife, something like a French cooking knife with a tapered blade. Before he had been stabbed, he had been drugged with chloral hydrochlorate probably administered in alcohol.

Later he was called to examine the body of Edna Brent.