The Chocolate Box (1991)

Leslie Elizabeth Watts's Edna Heathcott mystery, published by General Paperbacks in Toronto in 1991, opens with Edna, who works for the Fineberg Gallery on Hazelton Avenue in Yorkville, finding the body of Heinz Grobbelaar halfway down the stairs from his apartment to his shop, The Chocolate Box, a chic sex shop that sells body parts moulded in chocolate. Her mother wants her home in Elegance; Edna instead traces a set of fifteenth-century religious relics through the city's art world. (Open Library)

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Timex (unidentified model): Dr. John Henderson, a critic with a desk at the magazine Art in Canada on the Esplanade, gives Edna fifteen minutes to show him photographs of the relics. With his tweed jacket on the chair and his sleeves rolled to the elbow, she notices that he has no hair on his arms and is wearing a Timex watch; she reads ten minutes after ten off its face and knows she must raise Grobbelaar's name soon, before a phone call sends him running from the cubicle. The maker is named; the model is not.

Source text: He had his sleeves rolled up to his elbows, and I noticed that he had no hair on his arms. He was wearing a Timex watch. (Leslie Watts, The Chocolate Box, scan cataloged as General Paperbacks, 1991, p. 151, where she also reads the time off his Timex; his name and office are on pp. 149 to 150; the narrator is Edna Heathcott (pp. 2 and 152); Internet Archive scan OCR)