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Selected as one of the 100 best novels in English in The Guardian

Recently returned from South Africa, adventurer Richard Hannay is bored with life, but after a chance encounter with an American who informs him of an assassination plot and is then promptly murdered in Hannay’s London flat, he becomes the obvious suspect and is forced to go on the run. He heads north to his native Scotland, fleeing the police and his enemies. Hannay must keep his wits about him if he is to warn the government before all is too late.

This classic spy thriller sold a million copies before Buchan died in 1940, has been adapted countless times for film, television and the stage, and features the most exciting chase in the history of fiction.

With an introduction by Stuart Kelly.

This edition is authorised by the John Buchan Society.

The Thirty-Nine Steps: Authorised Edition

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Selected as one of the 100 best novels in English in The Guardian Recently returned from South Africa, adventurer Richard... Read more

    Publisher: Birlinn General
    Publication Date: 17/05/2011
    ISBN13: 9781846971983, 978-1846971983
    ISBN10: 1846971985

    Number of Pages: 160

    Fiction , Classics

    Description

    Selected as one of the 100 best novels in English in The Guardian

    Recently returned from South Africa, adventurer Richard Hannay is bored with life, but after a chance encounter with an American who informs him of an assassination plot and is then promptly murdered in Hannay’s London flat, he becomes the obvious suspect and is forced to go on the run. He heads north to his native Scotland, fleeing the police and his enemies. Hannay must keep his wits about him if he is to warn the government before all is too late.

    This classic spy thriller sold a million copies before Buchan died in 1940, has been adapted countless times for film, television and the stage, and features the most exciting chase in the history of fiction.

    With an introduction by Stuart Kelly.

    This edition is authorised by the John Buchan Society.

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