''Doctor on the Boil'' is a 1970

comedy novel A comic novel is a novel-length work of humorous fiction. Many well-known authors have written comic novels, including P. G. Wodehouse, Henry Fielding, Mark Twain, and John Kennedy Toole. Comic novels are often defined by the author's literary ...

by the British writer Richard Gordon.Pringle p.227 Bored with his retirement, Sir Lancelot Spratt returns to St Swithan's Hospital to resume his work and disturbs almost everyone else there.

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* Pringle, David. ''Imaginary People: A Who's who of Fictional Characters from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day''. Scolar Press, 1996. 1970 British novels Novels by Richard Gordon British comedy novels Novels set in hospitals Heinemann (publisher) books {{1970s-comedy-novel-stub