George looked at the clock on the wall behind the counter.
"It's five o'clock"
"The clock says twenty minutes pas five," the other man said.
"It's twenty minutes fast"
"Oh to hell with the clock" the first man said.
The Killers
Ernest Hemingway
1927
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The Killers
Robert Siodmak
1946
https://www.sleuthsayers.org/2012/12/literary-mystery.html#killers
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