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Elusive Isabel

Jacques Futrelle

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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.
Mr. Grimm sat with his elbows on his knees, idly twisting a seal ring on his little finger. The searching eyes of the ambassador found his face blankly inscrutable.

"Diplomatic representatives in Washington have certain obligations to this government," the young man reminded him. "We—that is, the government of the United States—undertake to guarantee the personal safety of every accredited representative; in return for that protection we must insist upon the name and identity of a dangerous person who may be known to any foreign representative. Understand, please, I'm not asserting that Miss Thorne is a dangerous person. You are sponsor for her here. Is she, in every way, worthy of your protection?"

"Yes," said the ambassador flatly.

"I can take it, then, that the introduction she brought to you is from a person whose position is high enough to insure Miss Thorne's position?"

"That is correct."

"Very well!"

And Mr. Grimm went away.

 

 

VI

REVELATIONS

 

Some vague, indefinable shadow darkened Miss Thorne's clear, blue-gray eyes, in sharp contrast to the glow of radiant health in her cheeks, as she stepped from an automobile in front of the Venezuelan legation, and ran lightly up the steps. A liveried servant opened the door.

"A gentleman is waiting for you, Madam," he announced. "His card is here on the—"

"I was expecting him," she interrupted.

"Which room, please?"

"The blue room, Madam."

Miss Thorne passed along the hallway which led to a suite of small drawing-rooms opening on a garden in the rear, pushed aside the portières, and entered.

"I'm sorry I've kept you—" she began, and then, in a tone of surprise: "I beg your par

Lindsay 08/14/2023
Dated but fun
Mh430 10/20/2017
Although the history books I've consulted are sadly ill-informed about it, this novel provides the startling news that there was a vast international conspiracy against both the United States and the British Empire in the years before the First World War. It seems that the "Latin nations" of that er
Claire 05/06/2016
This was a fun story, but was also one of the rare times when reading it a century (or so) late is a negative -- because its best qualities have been reused by so many other authors!

Still, it was a great tete-a-tete between two very sharp minds, with twists and turns, international intrigue, and a g
Joyce 12/09/2015
Considering when it was written, it was an interesting concept-geopolitically-that could almost be a foreshadowing for today's world. It is a very stylized novel in keeping with the time it was written.
Characters are very black or white-good or bad-not nuanced as we would find today. The mystery as
Kathleen 01/20/2011
2.5 stars

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