The thirty-nine steps

by John Buchan

Overview

Hanney, an expatriated Scot, returns from a long stay in South Africa to his flat in London. One night he is buttonholed by an American who appears to know of an anarchist plot to destabilise Europe, and claims to be in fear for his life. Hannay lets the American hide in his flat, and returns later to find that another man has been found shot dead in the same building, apparently a suicide. Four days later Hannay finds the American stabbed to death...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781545145555
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	04/04/2017
Pages:	88
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.18(d)

About the Author

John Buchan was born in Scotland in 1875. While at Brasenose College in Oxford, he published his first novel, Sir Quixote of the Moors, in 1895. He won the Newdgate Prize for Poetry in 1898. Buchan wrote about a hundred books, consisting of his fast–moving adventure stories. In 1915, he created the character of John Hannay, who he would feature in subsequent novels. He died in 1940.

Editorial Reviews

Another hot new series from Penguin, "Great Books for Boys" offers a handful of top adventure stories from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Each volume sports a nice vintage-looking cover to complete the spell. Great fun (and girls can read them, too!).

—Michael Rogers

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