Valentine M'Clutchy, the Irish Agent or The Chronicles of Castle Cumber

Valentine M'Clutchy, the Irish Agent or The Chronicles of Castle Cumber (1845); a melodramatic novel by William Carleton. M'Clutchy is the dishonest agent of an absentee landlord. His son Phil wants to marry Mary M'Loughlin; her refusal provokes a campaign of persecution against the family in which M'Clutchy is helped by Solomon M'Slime. At the end M'Clutchy is assassinated.