Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1999)
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Robert E. Skinner's third Wesley Farrell novel is set in New Orleans in 1938. While Farrell is drawn into the return of the ex-convict Ernie LeDoux, his young cousin Marcel does a favor for a dry cleaner, Chet Daniels, whose wastrel brother Ralph owes the gambler Nate Hopkins more than he can pay. (Open Library)
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- Ingraham watch
- Marcel has just bluffed Hopkins into giving the brothers more time. Not far away Ralph, who does not know it, lies on a cast-iron bed with an old single-action Colt beside him, takes a cheap Ingraham from his pocket and sees that it is nearly midnight, the deadline; he has seventeen dollars and change. Ingraham of Bristol, Connecticut, was one of the makers of the American dollar watch, which suits both the year and the man. The maker is named; the model is not.
Source text: He took a cheap Ingraham watch from his pocket and looked at it. It was nearing midnight, the deadline for paying off Nate Hopkins. (Robert E. Skinner, Daddy's Gone A-Hunting, scan cataloged as Poisoned Pen Press, 2000, p. 45, where the scan prints a dash after "midnight"; Internet Archive scan OCR)