Jitterbug (1998)
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Loren D. Estleman's novel of Detroit, published by Forge in 1998, is set in the city of the Second World War: rationing, the black market, Southern workers black and white brought north to the war plants, and a killer who takes himself for a soldier. Lieutenant Max Zagreb, whose squad is known as the Four Horsemen, has to catch him with a roster of 4-Fs and near-retirees while the city builds toward its race riots. (Open Library)
Watches
- Wittnauer watch
- Zagreb's Wittnauer is his working clock through the novel: he looks at it before giving the knock on a door (p. 21), allows a bar fifteen minutes by it and watches its sweep hand pass twelve before the first glass breaks (pp. 47 to 48), and reads ten past one on it at his desk (p. 76). On p. 58 it has stopped. He shakes it and winds the stem, and the narration explains that his Timex self-winder gave up the ghost just before Dunkirk, that all the other self-winders have gone to war, and that he has not got into the habit of winding. The maker is named; the model is not.
Source text: Zagreb's Wittnauer had stopped. He shook it, wound the stem. The sweep hand started moving. (Loren D. Estleman, Jitterbug, scan cataloged as Forge, 1998, p. 58; Internet Archive scan OCR)