Mortimer Bayliss, J.J. Bunyan's picture curator in Something Fishy. A tall, thin, sardonic man who looks like a Mephistopheles with ulcers. Supercilious manner, cackling laughter; member of the Mausoleum Club. Famous art critic in A Pelican at Blandings, where he has wrongly certified the authenticity of a forged nude attributed to Claude Robichaux.

• Something Fishy
• A Pelican at Blandings