pince-nez

Gamache does not solve crimes by adjusting his pince-nez and issuing a deduction.

He showed me some pince-nez reading glasses that Guinness has gotten for him, which make him look even more like an 18th-century European count.

Improbably bedecked in a bow tie, pince-nez glasses and a mailman’s hat, he held a pickle like a cigar and cracked wise in a voice borrowed from Groucho Marx.

A pair of cracked pince-nez balanced on the end of his twitching nose.

The first is the discovery by a timorous and eminently respectable architect of the nude body of a murdered man, neatly disposed in his bathtub, decorated with a pair of gold-rimmed pince-nez.