The Catfish, a novel by Charles Marriott, 1913

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Sue Anderson
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https://archive.org/details/catfish00marrgoog

There's an article in the March 2021 issue of Wired Magazine by Virginia Hefferman about the internet phenomena of "catfishing." https://www.wired.com/story/bed-tricks-cod-hidden-history-of-catfishing/. Hefferman asserts that the term "catfishing" originated with Charles Marriott's 1913 novel "The Catfish;" and she discusses, in detail, the plot of Marriott's book, which she claims is a "mesmerizing psychological novel."

Marriott's novel isn't in the LibriVox catalog.
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