Murder Can Ruin Your Looks (1995)

Selma Eichler's second Desiree Shapiro mystery has Manhattan's queen-size private investigator hired after a brutal attack on twin sisters leaves one dead and the other in a coma, with no one able to say which is which. Will Fitzgerald, a lawyer in her building who walked out of her dinner party, is among the people she would rather not see. (Open Library)

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Omega (unidentified model): Meeting Desiree at the water fountain the morning after leaving her dinner early, Will explains in his most sincere voice that he came home to a burglary: the thieves took his television, the six-hundred-dollar stereo he bought when he moved to New York and the Omega his grandfather gave him when he graduated from law school. Desiree, stone-faced, suggests he immolate himself and walks away. The watch is reported stolen in dialogue, not seen. The maker is named; the model is not.

Source text: "Those guys sure cleaned me out. They got away with my TV, the new six-hundred-buck stereo system I bought when I moved to New York, and the Omega watch my grandfather gave me when I graduated from law school." (Selma Eichler, Murder Can Ruin Your Looks, scan cataloged as Signet, 1995, p. 79; he is named on p. 78; the copyright page gives the Signet first printing and Open Library dates the book 1995; Internet Archive scan OCR)