Murder Under the Midnight Sun (2008)

Nicholas Rhea's Mark Pemberton mystery puts the detective superintendent on a cruise to the Arctic Circle to see the midnight sun, until a man is found stabbed in a locked cabin and the captain asks him to investigate without alarming the passengers. The dead man occupied the cabin booked to a Lionel Cooper, but Pemberton believes he is Richard Mansell, the companion of a monk in a wheelchair. (Open Library)

Watches

Longines watch: At the post-mortem in the ship's mortuary, recorded under both names as Cooper-Mansell because Pemberton doubts the man's identity, the ship's doctor describes a white male of about fifty, grey-haired, clean shaven, wearing no spectacles and no jewellery, not even a ring, although he has an expensive Longines that shows the correct time. Mansell, who watched the passengers board from the quayside with years of research behind him, is named in full on p. 25. The maker is named; the model is not.

Source text: He was clean shaven and not wearing spectacles or any kind of jewellery, not even a ring on his finger, although he had an expensive Longines watch which was showing the correct time. (Nicholas Rhea, Murder Under the Midnight Sun, scan cataloged as Magna large print, 2009, p. 149 of the large-print edition, OCR line-break hyphen closed up; the identity question is set out on pp. 147 to 148 and Richard Mansell is named on p. 25; Constable published the first edition in 2008; Internet Archive scan OCR)