Who Steals My Name...? (1976)

James Fraser's novel, published for the Crime Club by Doubleday in 1976, follows Detective Superintendent Bill Aveyard of the police headquarters outside Birton as a case that leads into the drug trade, bribery and corruption within the force turns into a scheme to ruin his career by stealing his good name, as the jacket puts it. Open Library records James Fraser as a pen name of Alan White. (Open Library)

Watches

Omega (unidentified model): Alone in the two-bedroomed flat he is buying on a mortgage, Aveyard takes stock of what his early promotions and trained mind have left him personally: a wardrobe of good clothes, six pairs of shoes, a stainless-steel Omega watch, a Parker fountain pen, an N-registration Austin 1300, a hundred and seventeen bottles of wine and twenty girls in a little black book. The maker is named; the model is not.

Source text: He had six pairs of shoes, a stainless-steel Omega watch, a Parker fountain pen, and an N-registration Austin 1300 motorcar. (James Fraser, Who Steals My Name...?, scan cataloged as Doubleday Crime Club, 1976, p. 83; the jacket flap names Superintendent Bill Aveyard and the copyright page gives 1976; Internet Archive scan OCR)