The Five Red Herrings (1931)
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Dorothy L. Sayers's seventh Lord Peter Wimsey novel, set among the artists of Galloway, opens with the painter Sandy Campbell found dead below a cliff and six fellow painters who might have wanted him there. The inventory of his pockets is part of the puzzle. (Wikipedia)
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- Ingersoll watch
- Wimsey searches the dead man's clothing and finds an Ingersoll in the breast pocket, alongside a comb and a partly used book of stamps. The passage names the maker without identifying a model.
Source text: the breast-pocket, only an Ingersoll watch, a pocket comb and a half-used book of stamps (Dorothy L. Sayers, The Five Red Herrings, scan cataloged as Avon, edition date unverified, p. 24; Internet Archive scan OCR)