“Typically then he sat almost unobtrusively in a crowded dressingroom and when asked for comment was at pains to stress that the victory was down to a team effort.”

“There were always a couple of them, with a scribe lurking unobtrusively in the background and taking notes in an indecipherable shorthand.”

“He ranks high among the great detectives of fiction but does so unobtrusively, disdaining self-advertisement.”