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In his third novel, Smollett, the master of picaresque comedy, presents a character who Walter Scott called a complete picture of human depravity." The refined and unrepentantly evil Count Fathom lies, cheats, and philanders his way across England and Europe. Having done so, he makes a return appearance in The Expedition of Humphry Clinker.