Wrist unit

Wrist unit – Wrist units appear throughout the series. A Jelly Roll was a wrist unit with a luminous dial that displayed the time; Nixie Swisher always wore one in Survivor in Death.

Ceremony in Death

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• The first mention of a wrist unit rather than a watch was in Ceremony in Death, when “Roarke picked up his slim gold wrist unit, [and] fastened it on.” Later, “he touched a button on his wrist unit to signal his driver.”

Conspiracy in Death

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• Dr. Michael Waverly wore a “smooth, thin gold... Swiss wrist unit.”

Loyalty in Death

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• Ratso wanted Eve to investigate The Fixer’s murder (“somebody cut his tongue right outta his head”) because he (Fixer) was afraid of another Arlington, and “he didn’t scare easy... They didn’t do him that way ’cause they was gonna take out a bank.” Eve “knew there were some who would gut a tourist for a wrist unit and a pair of airboots” but promised to look into his murder. He still had his “wrist unit - Cartier knock-off, but a good one - so Sally ruled out a standard mugging, especially when the autopsy didn’t turn up a tongue.”
• Peabody warned her brother about talking “to the people who cart around those cases fill of wrist units and PPCs.”
• J. Clarence Branson left his “gold wrist unit and the sum of one million dollars” to his assistant, Chris Tipple, “knowing he will treasure the former and make good use of the latter.”
• Paul Lamont was found with “fifty couple in credits, wrist unit, IDs and key cards, pack of breath mints, palm-link, date book, ... and a sticker over the legal limit.”
• Feeney rigged a wrist unit to track Eve’s location and conversation: “The mike’s low frequency, so it shouldn’t pop on a scan, but its range is a joke, and you’re going to have to talk straight into it for us to pick you up.” She removed her wrist unit and replaced it with the rigged one, which she then used to relay information about the droids B.D. and Clarissa Branson sent to retrieve the bearer bonds.

Witness in Death

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• Richard Draco did “some pretty heavy ’link shopping - eight pairs of shoes, three snazzy suits, antique wrist unit” before his murder.

Judgment in Death

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• Boyd Bayliss was found wearing a gold wedding ring and a gold wrist unit

Betrayal in Death

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• Sylvester Yost had taken some small, personal items from his victims: “a ring, a hair ribbon, a wrist unit. All inexpensive items that held consistent with the lack of robbery as motive.”
• When Eve and Roarke watched the feed of Yost raping and killing Jonah Talbot, they noticed Yost checking “his wrist unit a number of times,” concluding that he was on a timetable. Roarke was able to identify his wrist unit as ”Swiss, which is to be expected. A multitask Rolex. I have one myself, as do thousands of others who insist on dependable accuracy in such matters.”
• Vince Lane “wore a trendy sport’s wrist unit”

Purity in Death

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• Jenna Franco wore a slim, gold wrist unit

Portrait in Death

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• Madinga Jones “sported a silver lip ring, and a cheap knockoff of one of the more popular wrist units”
• Kenby Sulu “was carrying an id, and two debit cards, got a trendy wrist unit,” so not robbery
• Jessie Fryburn “glanced at the time on a slim silver wrist unit,”
• Baxter “tapped his wrist unit in the signal that they were packing it in,” letting Trueheart know they were leaving Make The Scene

Imitation in Death

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• McNab wore a “purple-banded wrist unit,” which he checked three times during Eve’s pre-Renquist takedown meeting, since he was nervous about Peabody taking the detective exam

Remember When

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• “Andrea Jacobs had been wearing a very nice wrist unit, and considerable jewelry. Real or knockoff, it hardly mattered. A B&E man wouldn’t have left them behind.” “The victim was wearing a lot of baubles. Possible-even probable-they’re fake, but her wrist unit was a good brand.”
• Carmen remembered that Trevor Whittier “had a really good wrist unit... It was really sharp-looking, thin and silvery with a pearly face” when she waited on him at Ciprioni’s. “‘Mother of pearl?’ Roarke suggested.” Carmen confirmed that, saying “It was one sharp-looking piece. Expensive-looking.” Yancy’s sketch was close, but not spot-on because Carmen wasn’t a great eye witness a month later. “She figures rich because he had an expensive wrist unit, paid in cash, and added a substantial tip. and some of that played into her description... Smooth complexion, smooth manner.”
• “Deliberately, Trevor turned his wrist to check the time on the luminous mother-of-pearl face of his wrist unit.”

Divided in Death

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• When Eve was walking around the city, “she could’ve rousted a couple of the sidewalk grifters hawking knockoff wrist units, PPCs, fake python handbags - all the rage this season - but she didn’t feel quite mean enough to bother”

Visions in Death

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• Louise Dimatto “wore a pale blue lab coat over a simple black shirt and trousers. two tiny gold hoops glinted in her left ear, with a third in the right. There were no rings on her competent fingers, and a plain, serviceable wrist unit sat on her left hand. Nothing about her screamed money, though she came from big green seas of it.”

Survivor in Death

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• Eve “saw a pricey man’s wrist unit on a dresser, a pair of woman’s gold earrings on another” in Grant and Keelie Swisher’s bedroom after their murder. “No, not burglary.” “Housekeeper first. But she wasn’t the target, she wasn’t the goal. Otherwise, why go upstairs at all? The family was the target. Parents and kids. Don’t even deviate for a second and scoop up an expensive wrist unit lying in plain sight.”
• “Summerset hitched back the cuff of his black jacket to reveal a wrist unit. Not a time piece, Eve noted, but a monitor. On it, she saw Trueheart and Nixie battling it out on one of Roarke’s classic pinball machines. ‘I took the precaution of pinning a homer on her sweater,’ he added. ‘If she moves from one location to another, it signals.’”

Origin in Death

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• The younger Dr. Icove wore an “expensive, yet subtle, wrist unit”
• Eva Samuels “wore a wrist unit that held a communicator”
• “The street hawkers were doing brisk business selling their designer knockoff everything, their gray-market electronics, their wrist units that would keep time just long enough for the hawker to complete the sale, change location, and melt into the city fabric. Let the buyer damn well beware, Eve thought.”

Memory in Death

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• The dresser in Trudy Lombard’s hotel room held “a travel candle, a disc holder, a pair of faux pearl earrings, a fancy wrist unit, and a string of pearls that might have been the genuine deal.” This was part of the reason Eve ruled out an unknown robber: “Maybe he had a weapon, woke her, ordered her out of bed. Looking for a quick score. but he doesn’t take this very nice wrist unit?He smacks her around - an activity nobody hears, or at least reports - then bashes her over the head and leaves? It’s not like that. Nothing like that.” After Eve confirmed no sexual assault, Peabody asked if Lombard was robbed. Eve replied, “It’s possible her killer was after something specific, had no interest in some jewelry and a quality wrist unit.”
• One of Eve’s detectives, Slader, caught and closed a case: “Junkie brother comes home, see, and the other guy’s waiting for him. He’s found out some stuff’s missing from the apartment. His pricey wrist unit, some electronics, that kind of deal. Gonna confront his brother, kick him out. Brother comes in late, stoned to the eyeballs... Vic had enough shit in him to fly all the way to Pluto and back. Looks like he pawned the shit he took from his brother to buy the stuff.” They fought and “asshole brother takes a header down the stairs, snaps his neck... Guy’s willing to cop to Man Three. So that’s how we’re doing it.”

Haunted in Death

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• Radcliff C. Hopkins III had “decent digs, [a] fancy antique wrist unit, designer wallet, pricey shoes. Doesn’t give the appearance of hurting financially.”

Born in Death

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• After Roarke vented to Eve about the NYPSD suggesting he would use information from Sloan, Myers, and Kraus for his benefit: “Did it occur to any of these levels that I don’t need to use my wife or her investigation to beat bloody hell out of a competitor, in a business sense, should I choose to do so.” Eve “hated when he used my wife in that tone. Like she was one of his fancy wrist units.”
• When Eve and Peabody were trying to get through Ellyn Bruberry to interview Walter Cavendish, “Peabody tapped her wrist unit. ‘Time’s a-wasting.’”

Innocent in Death

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• Craig Foster had a decent wrist unit, which struck Eve as a knockoff.
• In the case Baxter and Trueheart caught, Barrister “strolls in, flashy wrist unit, shiny shoes, big attitude.”

Creation in Death

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• After Robert Lowell tranq’d Eve, he “went through her pockets for her ’link, her communicator, her PPC. He removed her wrist unitt. ‘Take these and put them into the recycler. go upstairs, shut down,’ he told the droid.”

Strangers in Death

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• Eve suspected Ava Anders of murdering her husband from the beginning by the way she reacted to the news of Tommy’s death: “The call for transpo went out from her hotel room six minutes after she ended the transmission with Greta. But, there’s nearly a fifty-minute lag between then and her leaving the hotel. She ordered coffee, juice, fresh berries, and a croissant from her in-room AutoChef--I had the hotel look up her record. She ordered her little continental breakfast before she called for transpo arrangements.” Roarke offered: “Cold blood.” Eve agreed, saying, “A little thing maybe--not evidence, but it’s a thing. A lawyer would argue it’s nothing. She was in shock. But it’s bullshit. She was wearing perfume when she got to the house, and earrings, and a bracelet that matched her wrist unit... I believe she planned it out, covered every track. But she can’t cover who she is. She can’t quite cover up her self-interest, her vanity, or the calculation I see in her eyes every time I look at her.”
• Ava also didn’t wake her friends to let them know her husband was dead, but left a message cube. Sasha Bride-West told Eve “Brigit was furious about that, the kind of mad you get when you’re incredibly worried. I don’t know how many times that morning I said to her not to worry about that, how Ava must’ve panicked. How she must not have been able to think of anything but getting home.” After the interview, Eve walked outside with Roarke, saying, “Panicked, can’t think of anything but getting home. But you can think to leave a message cube. Not to wake your friends, sleeping right in the next rooms. But you can think of ordering a croissant and matching your wrist unit with a bracelet.” Roarke commented, “She didn’t want them with her, didn’t want to have to put on the façade on the trip back.”
• When Eve arrived at strip club where Cassie Gordon danced, she saw Roarke leaning “against the wall of the graffiti-scrawled, post-Urban War rattrap that held Bang She Bang, wearing a dark suit with the thinnest of pinstripes with a spring-weight overcoat billowing a bit as he worked on his handheld. His wrist unit was likely worth more than the building against which he braced.”

Salvation in Death

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• “Father Flores” “had a wrist unit on him - cheap one - and just under forty dollars in his wallet. Who pays these guys? Do they get paid?”

Promises in Death

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• Binks pawned his wrist unit to Stu Bollimer for $75, telling Eve he knew it was Binks’s property, that he’d seen him wearing it before
• Kip “tapped the broken face of his wrist unit. ‘It’s always the same time.’” He explained that he and Bop went upstairs to see if there was anything they could scavenge, which was when they found Rod Sandy’s body.

Kindred in Death

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• Mira wore a fancy silver wrist unit with a sparkly bracelet
• According to the detective who investigated Illya Schooner’s murder, Lieutenant Pulliti, he looked hard at her husband, Vance Pauley, but he was alibied “right and tight” He said, “the husband, he had some flash... Expensive wrist unit, shoes... I asked him about the wrist unit. Said it was a birthday present from his wife.”

Missing in Death

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• “New York appeared to have burst open for summer, and out of its nooks and crannies poured tourists and the street thieves who depended on them. Glida carts did brisk business with cold drinks and ice pops, while portable knockoff vendors raked it in with cheap souvenirs, wrist units that might function until the buyer got back to his hotel, colorful ‘silk’ scarves, fashion shades and handbags that could be mistaken for their designer counterparts if you were a half block away and had one eye closed.”
• Ivan Draski explained to Eve how he managed to escape from the Staten Island ferry after Carolee Grogan saw him and the dead Dana Buckley in the women’s room: He used the lost time device on her and “told her to hide. You can influence people when they’re under. She was to hide until she heard the alarm. I set it on her wrist unit. Then she was to go back where she came from. She wouldn’t remember.”

Fantasy in Death

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• “Mira went for a breezy suit, sort of like a peppermint—white with tiny flecks of candy pink. The flecks matched the shiny shoes with the skinny heels that set off Mira’s very nice legs. She wore her glossy brown hair in flattering waves around her soft and pretty face, and added a little bit of glitter and shine in earrings, necklace, a fancy girl’s wrist unit.”

Indulgence in Death

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• Roarke gave Eve two custom wrist units for their second anniversary - one serviceable for work - simple band, flat, silver-toned face, and the other bejeweled for fancy do’s. They had full communication capability - nano-com technology - navigation, and full data capabilities. Total data and communications - Roarke programmed it with all Eve’s stuff. “If I had to, I could access my files on it. Waterproof, shatterproof, voice-command capabilities. Gives me the ambient temp. Plus it tells time.” Later in the story, “Eve activated the GPS on her wrist unit, read in Ulrich’s address.” Peabody exclaimed: “We are so freaking high-tech!” Eve claimed, “I’m just seeing if it works.” When they arrived, “she smiled at her wrist unit. ‘Bastard really works.’”
• Jamal Houston “wore a wrist unit as gold as the limo and a gold star pin with a diamond winking in the center.” Eve ruled out robbery: “Wedding ring, pricey wrist unit, gold star with diamond pin, single gold stud in his earlobe. He’s got plastic, about a hundred fifty cash, small bills.It sure as hell wasn’t robbery.”
• Eve later “tried out her wrist unit in a tag to EDD,” impressing Feeney.

  Feeney: “You got a new ’link.”
  Eve: “Sort of.”
  Feeney: “Trans is crystal.”
  Eve: “It’s my wrist unit.”
  Feeney: “Get out. Those kinds of toys have crap trans.”
  Eve: “New model.”
  Feeney: “Roarke didn’t mention it. I want a look at that when you come in.”
  Eve: “Maybe.”

• Eve also used the navigation on her wrist unit to find Felicity VanWitt’s home in Connecticut and then later to answer her communicator.
• Bonita Wallace told Eve Adrianne Jonas’s “wrist unit had the panic button. It’s very much like mine. Adrianne gave everyone who works with her one. We go into unusual places, often at unusual times. We all take self-defense courses. She wanted us safe.”
• Feeney told Eve he had “been working on something like [Eve’s new wrist units] off and on. This one’s nice and compact, got more bells and whistles than I’d worked out.” He told Roarke, “that’s nice work.”

Eve later swapped out her everyday wrist unit for her evening one, which Roarke assured her worked “the same way as your everyday.” She then used her wrist unit to contact Peabody to report to Interview, impressing Dudley’s attorney.

Treachery in Death

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• Since Bruster “Skid” Lowe, Jimmy K. “Smash” Rogan, and Leon “Slash” Slatter “didn’t take any money, didn’t snatch the Ochis’ wedding rings, their wrist units, the DB’s wallet,” Eve suggested they would be more likely to go play basketball than go to a sex club, which cost money.
• After a man threatened Roarke outside Rickie “Juicy” Keener’s murder site: “Gonna spill your guts all over the street, then I’m gonna fuck your woman. Gimme the wallet, the wrist unit. Ring, too.” Roarke let him live, but did give him an elbow jab to the kidneys and slammed his foot against the big man’s kneecap before advising him to run.
• William Garnet’s body was found without a ’link, wrist unit, memo book, or wallet, although leaving his still-sheathed knife and a large amount of drugs on his fingers ruled out a deal gone bad.

New York to Dallas

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• Eve “used the wrist unit her husband had given her, engaged its communicator” to contact her detectives to cover Isaac McQueen’s former apartment building.
• McQueen wore a high quality silver wrist unit

Chaos in Death

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• Ken Dickerson’s father became addicted to pain killers after a car accident, then died in prison after ending “up on the street where he stabbed somebody to death for twelve dollars and a wrist unit.”

Celebrity in Death

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• Eve wore her fancy wrist unit to the dinner at Mason Roundtree and Connie Burkette’s home. K.T. Harris was found dead still wearing her dress, jewelry, and wrist unit. A.A. Asner’s body, on the other hand, was found without his wrist unit, although Eve and Peabody were too smart to believe it was a robbery.

Delusion in Death

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• Joseph Cattery was found at the On the Rocks massacre “wearing a gold wedding ring, a gold wrist unit.”
• Dr. Christopher Lester’s “wrist unit winked gold in the overhead light.“
• Stevenson Vann was wearing a platinum wrist unit when Eve interviewed him at Stevenson and Reede.
• Eve’s ’link signaled and she “switched it to her wrist unit. ‘That is so iced,’ Peabody murmured.”

Calculated in Death

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• Marta Dickenson’s killer stole the wrist unit her brother-in-law, Dr. Daniel Yung, and sister-in-law, Judge Gennifer Yung, gave her for her fortieth birthday, along with her wedding band, earrings, and coat. Since she was still wearing her almost-new good boots, it was clearly not the mugging it was staged to look like.
• Bradley Whitestone told Eve it was one of the reasons he wasn’t surprised that Jake Ingersol was involved in something shady-he had explained away an expensive wrist unit as having bought it at an estate sale for peanuts, a “painting he bought a few months ago after he said he’d hit it big in Atlantic City,” and some other things. The wrist unit was later described as six figures, and the fact that it was left with Ingersol‘s dead body indicated that the hacker wasn’t involved in his murder.

Thankless in Death

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• Jerald Reinhold hocked his parents’ wrist units, along with the rest of their jewelry, at Ursa’s Fine Jewelry after killing them. His father’s was a gold Rolex engraved with his initials-a twenty—fifth-anniversary gift from his wife and his mother’s was an antique gold watch, set with diamonds and sapphires, circa middle twentieth century, Rolex brand, that had been her maternal great-grandmother’s

Concealed in Death

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• Sebastian was described by Eve as having “long, graceful-looking fingers... certainly adept at lifting wallets, flicking off wrist units. He rose as they approached. Eve managed to watch his eyes and his hands at the same time, just in case.”

Festive in Death

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• Sima Murtagh told Eve Trey Ziegler had “a really good wrist unit for work - a sports model - and a really nice dress one. Trina told Eve “You can bet he didn’t buy those wrist units for himself, or half that slick wardrobe. He scouted out rich, older women.”
• When Eve gave Roarke a mother-of-pearl and platinum lapel pin for Christmas, she told him, “You don’t go for the shiny stuff - nothing but a wrist unit for you. But two can play. It’s a lapel thing. A white petunia.” He said, "Yes, I see. Your wedding flower." “When he looked up, when those fabulous blue eyes met hers, she saw she’d hit the mark.”
• Eve’s outfit for their holiday party included “long, twisty diamond-and-ruby drops for the ears, another ruby in a star-shaped setting dangling from three thin chains twinkling with tiny diamonds. Her dressy wrist unit, and a trio of thin bangles - one ruby, two diamonds.”

Obsession in Death

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• The story opens with Lieutenant Eve Dallas standing in Leanore Bastwick’s “sumptuous bedroom done in bold strokes of rich purple, deep metallic grays, and quick splashes of green. Outside the ad blimps manically touted the AFTER CHRISTMAS BLOW-OUT SALES! and street vendors hyped fake designer wrist units and knockoff handbags to throngs of tourists packed into the city for the holiday week.”
• One of the kids who killed a pair of brothers for their new airboards had “already done five for assault with intent, and did his own stint in juvie prior. Third sticker on him and a shiny new wrist unit I bet he cut some other poor bastard for,” according to Jenkinson.
• After Peabody told Eve she felt sorry for Gina Tortelli, because “she was good enough to get her detective’s shield, to close cases, maybe make a difference. And she tossed it, all of it, for a few thousand dollars.” Eve told her, “It’s not the money, it’s never just the money. It’s the idea you’re entitled to it. Some DB had a wad of cash on him, what’s he going to do with it? Hey, that’s a nice wrist unit, and he’s got no pulse, so I might as well have it. Shit, that was a big illegals bust, and I got a little bloody on it. The department’s just going to light it up, so what’s the harm if I take a chunk, sell it to some mope? I bust my ass, risk my ass, I deserve it. The first time you think that, do that, pocket something from a crime scene, dip into the pockets of a DB, you’re done. You’re finished, and rolling on cops as dirty as you won’t make you clean again.”
• Baxter and Trueheart caught a case: “Guy mugs this young, foolish couple in Greenpeace Park. They hand it all over, nobody gets hurt, and the mugger takes off. Young, foolish couple go home, bang to settle their nerves, then report the mugging. Turns out the mugger was the DB we caught. He takes off running with his ill-gotten gains, and tox is going to show he was more flying anyway, crashed, burned, hit his head on a rock. Case - or should I say cases - closed. He still had their wrist units and plastic on him.”

Devoted in Death

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• The first person Darryl Roy James and Ella-Loo Parsens killed, Robert Jansen, “had a nice wrist unit, silver and shiny like the car.” Ella-Loo “wanted Darryl to have it.” After they killed him, she instructed Darryl to “take his wallet, his wrist unit. Take anything he’s got on him.”
• Dorian Kuper had a small wall safe in his closet, with “some cash, his passport, a small collection of wrist units, cuff links, nothing out of the ordinary, nothing over-the-top.”
• Jacob Fastbinder “didn’t have his fancy hiker-guy wrist unit" when his body was found, so between that and how experienced a hiker he was, Eve and Will Banner both ruled out accidental death.”
• Ella-Loo was disappointed that Reed Aaron Mulligan had “less than twenty on him. Shit, and no wrist unit or nothing.”
• Baxter found a pawn shop James and Parsens used. They pawned “a wrist unit, sports model, and a second, dress type. Decent ones, both men’s styles. A tablet - wiped clean - a keyboard, musical type, an entertainment screen, an antique vase, a silver Saint Christopher’s medal. Nothing shows up on stolen.” When Eve ran that data with anything reported missing from the known victims, she noted “tablet, wrist units - but nothing matching the pawned wrist units,” leading her to conclude the pawned items were from somebody they killed whose body was not yet discovered or identified, and that was where James and Parsens were living in New York.

Wonderment in Death

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• One of the “tokens” Darlene Fitzwilliams gave “Dr. Bright” on her last visit to him was a “slim, antique ladies’ watch” from her mother. “A tiny diamond butterfly perched above the twelve, and pretty diamond chips circled the face. Yes, Bria Fitzwilliams had worn it often, choosing it in lieu of more stylish and practical wrist units, clasping it on thinking of her own mother, her mother’s mother, and back five generations. Time marked again, birth to death, death to birth and round and round.”

Apprentice in Death

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• Nadine “checked her glittering wrist unit.”

Echoes in Death

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• When Oliver Quint was being interviewed by Eve at Cop Central, he was extremely nervous, partly because “‘Chachie said how he found the wrist unit, and he needed some scratch, so I bought it off him cheap. Maybe I sort of figured he maybe stole it somewhere, but I didn’t steal it.’ Eve arched an eyebrow, studied the black, fake leather band and oversized unit on Quint’s bony wrist. ‘That wrist unit?’ ‘Well, yeah. See. mine got busted, so-‘ ‘So you’re wearing what you believe is stolen property to a police interview?’ ‘I...’ He looked sincerely baffled. ‘My old one got busted.’” After Eve assured him “we’re not interested in the wrist unit” he volunteered going to a party where there was Zoner present, although he claimed not to have used any.
• Eve “tagged Peabody on her wrist unit” and later “used her wrist unit to shoot off a quick text to Roarke: Got a little delayed. I’m heading toward the hospital to check on Daphne Strazza. Home after that. I’ve got a long night coming--sorry.”

Secrets in Death

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• Eve noted Larinda Mars’s table companion at Du Vin as: “mid-thirties, mixed race, slickly polished looks, wavy brown hair, and blue eyes that looked as annoyed as she herself felt. Business suit--not off-the-rack--high-end wrist unit.” Eve later described him to Peabody as “male, mixed race, late thirties, wavy brown hair, blue eyes. Rich--expensive dark gray suit, ah... blue shirt, blue-and-gray patterned tie with some red in it. Pricey-looking wrist unit. Silver or white gold.”
• The street thief Eve apprehended was wearing a coat with loot pockets inside, with wrist units and wallets in them. The “Good Samaritan” Eve kneed in the groin after he grabbed her arm, “still wheezing, stared at one of the wrist units Eve held out as proof. ‘I... That’s mine!’ He looked down at his naked wrist, at the one in Eve’s hand, at the girl now wearing a defiant smirk. ‘You’ll need to come down to Cop Central, sir, to make a claim. I’m sorry for the inconvenience. And for the knee.’ He just continued to goggle. ‘She stole my wrist unit.’ The girl shrugged. ‘I gotta eat, don’t I?’ He stopped goggling long enough to snarl, ‘Get a job.’”

Dark in Death

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• Walking “through the unrelenting insanity of Times Square, ...Eve caught the eye of a street thief, watched him wisely turn on his heel and head fast in the opposite direction. His coat--likely with several of the loot pockets already holding wallets and wrist units--flapped around his legs.”
• “Eve used her wrist unit, dictated a text to Peabody”
• Chanel Rylan’s killer was wearing a chunky, mannish wrist unit, as part of disguise, since the murder being copied was by a male.
• Blaine DeLano made a point of saying she didn’t wear a wrist unit when she worked: “I don’t pay attention to the time when I’m working.”

Leverage in Death

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• Paul Rogan and Cecily Greenspan’s small wall safe contained “some cash, some decent if not flashy jewelry, and a couple of high-end, dressy wrist units, passports, and so on.”
• When Kimmi’s home was broken into, this is what was taken: “My comp, spare ’link, my tablet, my wall screen, the wrist unit my parents got me when I got my MBA, my emergency cash.”
• Jordan Banks was found without a coat, a wrist unit, or shoes. “No wallet, no ’link.”
• Banks’s killer took his Angelo Richie sketch, but not his “expensive wrist units and cuff links.”
• Eve tagged Baxter from her wrist unit.

Connections in Death

• Eve took a ’link call from Detective Strong on her wrist unit.
• Samuel Cohen “offered the booking officer his wrist unit and two hundred in cash to let him go, so an additional charge of attempted bribery was added just to sweeten the pot.”
• The Bangers had a storage space with “illegals in one section, ID supplies in another, a few wrapped stacks of cash, electronics-mostly tablets and PPCs, and likely stolen-a cache of weapons and jewelry, wrist units.”

Vendetta in Death

• Nigel McEnroy “wore a sleek wrist unit that said wealthy to anyone with an eye for such things.”
• Lady Justice tapped her wrist unit to signal her droid driver after she drugged McEnroy at This Place.
• The safes at Thaddeus Pettigrew and Marcella Horowitz’s home contained “jewelry, wrist units, a little spare cash.”

Golden in Death

• “Eve took a contact from Officer Shelby on her wrist unit” and used it a couple of days later to send a quick text to Roarke.
• Marion Coffman Black bought an engraved wrist unit for her husband for their twenty-fifth anniversary.
• During Eve and Roarke’s discussion of a windfall, Eve suggested “Somebody tossed off a roof can fall unexpectedly at your feet. How’s that a windfall?” Roarke said, “We’ll clarify by something worthwhile falling at your feet,” and Eve offered, “The body might have a solid-gold wrist unit and pockets full of cash, so pretty worthwhile.”
• Marshall Cosner’s body was found with “no visible defensive or offensive wounds” and “wearing a gold wrist unit” with pockets containing “a ’link, a wallet --cash and plastic-- and there are numerous valuables in the building, so no evidence of an altercation or robbery.”
• The apartment security feed showed Stephen Whitt checking his wrist unit, then taking out a drop ’link, answering a tag from Cosner, and then smirking, before heading up to Cosner’s apartment to wipe files, remove electronics, and plant drugs.

Shadows in Death

• Galla Modesto was found “wearing a good-size diamond and diamond-encrusted ring on her left hand, what look like diamond stud earrings -- two in the left, one in the right. And a sport-style wrist unit” so “no evidence this was a mugging.”
• The licensed companion Lorcan Cobbe hired, Yvette Conroy, “checked a thin, glittering wrist unit, shook back long, wavy hair. She made her way down the hall, pressed the buzzer on Cobbe’s door. He opened it, unsmiling, wearing one of the hotel’s robes. She came out again in twenty-six minutes, looking mildly amused and a little baffled. ‘Not much staying power,’ Eve commented. They watched her take out a ’link in the elevator, speak with someone, laugh, shrug. Another check of her wrist unit, and she glided out, across the lobby, and away.”
• Roarke dreamed of his misspent youth on Grafton Street: “The man he was couldn’t help but admire the boy’s nimble fingers lifting a wallet here, slipping it to a mate -- or using the quick bump and begging your pardon, sir! to snag a wrist unit and pass that to another mate. ... He found his mark in a man with a gold wrist unit and a camera -- a real one, a beauty... He pined for the camera. Oh, that would bring a good price! And the wrist unit as well. But from the angles -- and he’d known the angles -- settling for the wallet was his best bet.”
• Tara Undall described Cobbe as wearing “jeans, good ones... Carbelli jeans, good boots, both black, a silk T-shirt, an amber color, and a black leather jacket. Real leather. He had a wrist unit-sport style.”
• Eve answered her communicator on her wrist unit.

Faithless in Death

• Gwen Huffman’s “meeting-with-wedding-planner attire” included “subtle but impressive jewelry”: “diamond studs, a necklace with a pink stone heart outlined in diamonds, a wrist unit with a glittery pink band, a heart-shaped pink stone ring on her right hand, and, of course, her fat diamond engagement ring on her left.”
• Huffman’s brother, Trace Huffman, “took off the day of his eighteenth birthday, so he tells it, with his guitar, a duffel bag, and the money he’d squirreled away over the previous six months by pawning things he felt wouldn’t be noticed. His tennis racket, his dress wrist unit, and so on.”

Forgotten in Death

• Bolton Kincade Singer “wore a thick, ridged, white-gold wedding band, a slick and sleek black-banded wrist unit, and a single stud in his left ear.”

Abandoned in Death

• The only jewelry Lauren Elder habitually wore was a silver band, a thumb ring, that her cohab, Roy Mardsten, gave her when they moved in together, a nice wrist unit her parents gave her for the previous Christmas, and little heart-shaped ruby studs her grandparents gave her when she turned twenty-one, ruby being her birthstone.

Encore in Death

• Brant Fitzhugh was wearing “a high-end wrist unit, probably platinum,” on his left wrist.
• Dolby Kessler “sported a fancy wrist unit with a red band.”
• Fitzhugh left his personal assistant, Lin Jacoby, “a cool million, along with some personal items. A wrist unit, cuff links, and so on.” He also left a classic car and wrist unit to his agent.
• Dobson’s brother-in-law stabbed him “fifteen times before he took the hundred and twelve dollars the vic pulled in cash tips that night. Took his ’link, his wrist unit, his damn wedding ring.”
• Eve took a call from Nadine on her wrist unit and later placed a call to Mira’s admin from it.
• Ms. Gambini, who was visiting her son for the summer, played opera music from his apartment window - Peabody told Eve, “She does this every morning. You could set your wrist unit by it.”

Payback in Death

• Captain Martin Greenleaf had “a wrist unit, left wrist, and a band style ring on the third finger of his left hand.”
• Eve “dug into the Greenleafs’ financials. If a motive connected to money, she knew well people killed for a cheap wrist unit and pocket change. The Greenleafs had more than that. They’d lived within their means, saved, invested a little. She found they’d had college funds for their children, and had started the same for their grandchildren. No gambling, no out-of-line expenses. The biggest hit in twelve months, a beach house one-week rental on the Jersey shore slated for mid-August. Family, she thought again. The foundation of their lives and the core.”
• Eve “used her wrist unit to update peabody on the strategy.”

Passions in Death

• When Eve was “a handful of blocks from Crack’s,” she saw “a guy in a backward fielder’s cap” selling “knockoff designer wrist units at a sidewalk table. He had a couple of tourists on the hook. They’d be better off with a sundial, but you lived and you learned.”

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