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Peters Fraser & Dunlop Lose Evelyn Waugh's Literary Estate To US Agent

Posted at 7:12AM Wednesday 26 Mar 2008

For Andrew "The Jackal" Wylie, it is the scoop of a lifetime and he never even had to bare his fangs. The predatory literary agent who aggressively bagged major English writers from Martin Amis to Salman Rushdie has snatched Evelyn Waugh's literary estate from the agency that has handled it for the past 80 years.

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