List of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: The circuit of the secret in reality and fiction, Elisabetta Abignente and Laura Di Fiore Part 1 Key aspects 1 Political spies in nineteenth-century Europe: A summary and overview, Robert Justin Goldstein 2 Cover stories? Bibliographical itineraries into spy fiction studies (1969-2019), Francesco Casales Part 2 Transnational networks 3 Spies, secret agents and confidants: For an underground history of the Carlist Wars, Alexandre Dupont 4 Policing political dissidence in Mediterranean port-cities during the long Age of Revolutions (1815-71), Christos Aliprantis 5 The Dreyfus Affair and the genesis of the British spy story, 1894-1900 83, Alessandra Crotti Part 3 Secret, power and geopolitics at Europe's borders 6 Imagined communities and geostrategic knowledge in The Riddle of the Sands, Riccardo Capoferro 7 Stories of Italian spies and special agents in late-nineteenth-century Egypt: The international struggle against anarchism in a colonial territory, Costantino Paonessa Part 4 Double identities, dissimulation and disguise 8 The Mouchard in panoramic literature, Michela Lo Feudo 9 False names, multiple nationalities: Spying in the nineteenth-century Mediterranean area, Laura Di Fiore 10 Double identity and spy story topoi in The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Secret Agent , Elisabetta Abignente Index.