Novel 255: James Payn, A Confidential Agent (1880)
A frustrated inventor is unhappy in his job as jeweler’s agent.
Here is another novel by Payn (see Novels 011, 081, 211), who is as entertaining as ever.
Payn “relieves the artifice of his stories with a good deal of human nature, generally of the genial kind, and is gifted with humour of the irrepressible order.” Spectator, November 13, 1880
“Mr. Payn’s fertility of invention and freshness of style are wonderful.” Saturday Review, November 27, 1880
“A well contrived story, full of incident, and sufficiently intricate to mystify the reader.” Athenaeum, December 11, 1880
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