The main character calls the operator to get the number for the police
Laundry marks help to identify the former wearer of a suit.
Everyone is smoking at the bar.
People are worried about what the Soviets are up to.
The guys are all wearing armor.
Awful lot of people in today’s world wearing armour too, unfortunately.
The cover is falling apart
Okay, a serious one: The men all put on hats when they go outside.
The protagonist is leaving town on business and has a train to catch.
Very openly expressed values dissonance compared to modern times, especially involving women, any minority of any kind, and the police.
An important message is delivered by telegram.
There are sex scenes.
The main characters are playing piquet by candlelight.
There’s a soiree in the pump room at Bath.
Someone prepares for a trip with paper maps.
It opens with “In the beginning…”
The town crier has news.
‘The answer lay somewhere among the green characters on the computer screen …’
They specify that someone had a “camera phone.”
Characters must dodge horse droppings when crossing the street.
Not sure that’s changed as much as you apparently think; especially when it’s phrased (as it often is) as being worried about what Russia is up to.
– People are, and expect to be, out of touch with each other for significant periods of time.
– People look for information without resorting to the internet.
– My first indication on recently reading a previously unfamiliar book: somebody’s reported as having paid for their lodgings with “gold specie”, and there’s no sign that anyone thinks this extraordinary. (A few pages later the author kindly told unfamiliar readers explicitly that it was set in 1897.)