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The Thirty-nine Steps

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I realised that I was bottled as sure as a pickled herring, and that there was only one way out. I had to die. If my pursuers knew I was dead they would go to sleep again.

John
Buchan

The Thirty-nine Steps

John Buchan

The perfect combination of fine writing and suspense-filled plot makes Buchan’s the Thirty-Nine Steps an engaging novel of intrigue, which was adapted to the screen by Hitchcock in 1935. Written in 1915, we follow protagonist Richard Hannay through England and the lowlands of Scotland as he eludes spies and keeps Europe from war.

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EDINBURGH; LONDON: WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, 1915
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 1999

1 The Man who Died

2 The Milkman sets out on his Travels

3 The Adventure of the Literary Innkeeper

4 The Adventure of the Radical Candidate

5 The Adventure of the Spectacled Roadman

6 The Adventure of the Bald Archaeologist

7 The Dry-fly Fisherman

8 The Coming of the Black Stone

9 The Thirty-nine Steps

10 Various Parties converging on the Sea

The Thirty-nine Steps

John Buchan

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