The Haunted Bookshop (1919)
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Christopher Morley's bibliophile mystery follows Brooklyn bookseller Roger Mifflin, advertising man Aubrey Gilbert, and the intrigue around a vanished volume. (Open Library)
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- Elgin watch
- In a conversation about advertising copy, Mifflin jokes about an ad claiming that "the Elgin watch had won the war."
Source text: "I read in an ad the other day—perhaps you wrote that, too?" said the bookseller, "that the Elgin watch had won the war. However, Mr. Chapman has long been one of my best customers." (Project Gutenberg ebook 172)