Butchers Hill (1998)

Laura Lippman's third Tess Monaghan novel finds the former Baltimore reporter opening her own detective office on Butchers Hill, pushed out of the nest by her old employer, the lawyer Tyner Gray. His send-off present is on her wrist as she walks her greyhound Esskay through Patterson Park. (Open Library)

Watches

Victorinox Swiss Army (unidentified model): Walking Esskay before her ten-thirty client, Tess checks her Swiss Army watch and recalls receiving it from Tyner Gray as a parting gift, which she had compared to a game-show consolation prize; he had answered that it was good to 330 feet, as if she meant to go back into the Patapsco. The text says only "Swiss army watch".

Source text: She checked her Swiss army watch, a parting gift from Tyner. "Parting gift," she had mused. "Isn't that what you get on a game show when you've lost?" "Good up to 330 feet," he had replied, as if she ever planned to be even ankle-deep in the Patapsco again, much less the ocean. (Laura Lippman, Butchers Hill, scan cataloged as Avon Books, 1998, p. 21; Internet Archive scan OCR)