Elusive Isabel E-Book

Jacques Futrelle

• Herausgeber: Enrico Conti
• Kategorie: Abenteuer, Thriller, Horror
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

Elusive Isabel is a novel by Jacques Futrelle first published in 1909. Set in Washington, D.C., it is a spy novel about an international conspiracy of the "Latin" countries against the English-speaking world with the aim to take over world control. The eponymous heroine, Isabel Thorne, is a young woman, half British, half Italian, who works for the Italian Secret Service. She has been commissioned to bring about the signing of a secret contract, in the capital of the enemy, by representatives of all countries involved, both European and American. Her brother, an inventor, has devised a secret weapon by which missiles can be fired from submarines  which will, it is hoped, secure military domination over the rest of the world...

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Elusive Isabel

by

Jacques Futrelle

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Miss Isabel Thorne

Mr. Campbell and the Cable

The Language of the Fan

The Fleeing Woman

A Visit to the Count

Revelations

The Signal

Miss Thorne and Not Miss Thorne

Fifty Thousand Dollars

A Safe Opening

The Lace Handkerchief

The Vanishing Diplomatist

A Conference in the Dark

A Rescue and an Escape

Master of the Situation

Letters from Jail

A Call on the Warden

Notice to Leave

By Wireless

The Light in the Dome

A Slip of Paper

The Compact

The Percussion Cap

The Personal Equation

We Two

In which they Both Win

1. Miss Isabel Thorne

All the world rubs elbows in Washington. Outwardly it is merely a city of evasion, of conventionalities, sated with the commonplace pleasures of life, listless, blasé even, and always exquisitely, albeit frigidly, courteous; but beneath the still, suave surface strange currents play at cross purposes, intrigue is endless, and the merciless war of diplomacy goes on unceasingly. Occasionally, only occasionally, a bubble comes to the surface, and when it bursts the echo goes crashing around the earth. Sometimes a dynasty is shaken, a nation trembles, a ministry topples over; but the ripple moves and all is placid again. No man may know all that happens there, for then he would be diplomatic master of the world.

“There is plenty of red blood in Washington,” remarked a jesting legislative gray-beard, once upon a time, “but it’s always frozen before they put it in circulation. Diplomatic negotiations are conducted in the drawing-room, but long before that the fight is fought down cellar. The diplomatists meet at table and there isn’t any broken crockery, but you can always tell what the player thinks of the dealer by the way he draws three cards. Everybody is after results; and lots of monarchs of Europe sit up nights polishing their crowns waiting for word from Washington.”