Foreword. Preface . Preface to the Second Edition (online). List of Acronyms and Abbreviations . List of Illustrations . Prologue. 1. Powerful Patrons. ‘A thousand scrapes’. Palmerston and Dickens. Caught out by ‘Lord Fiddlededee’. 2 .‘The Roving Englishman’. Arise, ‘Sir Hector Stuble’!. British diplomacy – ‘a lugubrious farce’. Satire and anonymity. 3. Revenge of the ‘Cousinocracy’.     Exiled to Mytilene. Locked out. ‘Are you, or are you not, the “Roving Englishman”’?. Persian punishment. Ordeal at Odessa. Dismissed by ‘Count von Quickmarch’. 4. The Queen’s Messenger. ‘Ho, All Ye Who Have Suffered Wrong!’. The ‘Coachington’ affair – and jumping bail. 5. A ‘Literary Manufactory’ in Paris. A family business. A ghost at the siege . The production line . The cult of mystery. The ennobling grievance . Epilogue. Appendix 1  Grenville-Murray’s books: anonymous, pseudonymous, and signed. Appendix 2  Grenville-Murray’s articles in the Cornhill Magazine . Appendix 3  Key Primary Sources Free Online. References . Illustrations. Index