Murder at the ABA (1976)
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Isaac Asimov's 1976 mystery is set at the American Booksellers Association convention, where the writer Darius Just finds his former protege Giles Devore dead in a hotel bathtub and refuses to accept that it was an accident. His timetable of the death rests on his watch. (Open Library)
Watches
- Bulova Accutron
- A minute or two after finding Giles Devore's body on Memorial Day 1975, Darius Just looks at his watch, reads 1:35, and trusts it: it is an Accutron and he knows it is within ten seconds of the official time, which lets him put the discovery at 1:33. The text says only "Accutron".
Source text: I looked at my watch and it was 1:35. It was an Accutron and I knew it was within ten seconds of the official time. (Isaac Asimov, Murder at the ABA, scan cataloged as Doubleday, 1976, p. 77; Internet Archive scan OCR)