The Winning Streak (1985)
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Arnold Grisman's novel was published by St. Martin's Press in 1985. Goldberg, a retired cop and once a football player, walks out of a Las Vegas casino at two on a Monday morning with $147,000 in hundred-dollar bills, and is soon doing a favour for the mother of a kidnapped girl, a search that leads him to a San Francisco painter. (Open Library)
Watches
- Baume & Mercier watch
- A man who knew him tells Goldberg that the painter Digger Odell wears a Baume and Mercier courtesy of a local banking fortune (p. 181). Found by Goldberg in San Francisco, Odell glances at it, eighteen-karat gold studs and links, impatient to get to an appointment; Goldberg clasps the wrist that holds it, warns him about the gun under his jacket, and says he wants neither his money nor his watch. At the table Odell notices Goldberg looking at the watch (p. 188). The maker is named; the model is not.
Source text: Odell glanced at his watch, a Baume and Mercier with eighteen-karat gold studs and eighteen-karat gold links. A lot of eighteen-karat. Very masculine. Very expensive. (Arnold Grisman, The Winning Streak, scan cataloged as St. Martin's Press, 1985, p. 187; Internet Archive scan OCR)