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A Traveling Salesman is an older character type that sometimes overlaps with the [[Snake Oil Salesman]]. Typically, the traveling salesman is well-dressed and has some aspects of the [[Intrepid Merchant]] to his character, or he may be more of an [[Honest John's Dealership|Honest John]]-type of fellow.
As the numerous jokes linking his type to the [[
A British term for the profession is a "busman", and this is the origin of the term [[Busman's Holiday]]. Not to be confused with [[Traveling Salesman Montage]].
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* Besides the more famous [[Lord Peter Wimsey]], [[Dorothy L. Sayers]] also wrote some stories about [[Montague Egg]], a traveling wine salesman who played detective.
* The first book in ''[[The Great Brain]]'' series had a story about a Jewish travelling peddler who decided to settle down and open a store in Adenville; he died of starvation because business was so slow. Because he was the only Jew around, he didn't have anyone to look out for him or check up on him or anything.
* In [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Dead Zone]]'', politican Greg Stillson used to be one in his youth, selling Bibles and books about a Communist-Jewish conspiracy against America. And indeed, once he made it a [[
* Al Phee in [[Spider Robinson]]'s ''[[Callahan's Crosstime Saloon|"Did You Hear The One About..."]]'' was a con artist posing as an "Intergalactic Travelling Salesman", until he's taken down by a Farmer's Daughter. Specifically [[Time Police|time cop]] Josie Bauer, [[Stealth Pun|the daughter of]] [[Philip Jose Farmer]].
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