Earworms in Literature I
An earworm* appears in Ian Rankin's Fleshmarket Alley (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2004) p. 82:
This morning, [Detective] Rebus looked innocent enough: sleepy eyes and a patch of gray bristle on his throat which the razor had missed. He wore a tie the way some schoolkids did — on sufferance. Each morning, he seemed to come into work whistling some irritating line from an old pop song. By midmorning, he'd have stopped doing it, but by then it was too late: Tibbet would be whistling it for him, unable to escape the pernicious chorus.
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* For more about earworms, see my earlier entry on "Earworm Origins".