# Elusive Isabel

Author: Futrelle, Jacques, 1875-1912; Kimball, Alonzo, 1874-1923 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10943

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Elusive+Isabel+Futrelle&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

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...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elusive-isabel-10943/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elusive-isabel-10943/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elusive-isabel-10943/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elusive-isabel-10943/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elusive-isabel-10943/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elusive-isabel-10943/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elusive-isabel-10943/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elusive-isabel-10943/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elusive-isabel-10943/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/elusive-isabel-10943/chapters/10/index.md)