The Thirty-Nine Steps (Edwardian, #215) (Richard Hannay, #1) (Cambridge Library Collection - Fiction and Poetry)

by Stacy Stephens, Gustavo Bondoni, and John Buchan

Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter with an American who had told him about an assassination plot which could have dire international consequences. An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, Hannay goes on the run in his native Scotland where he will need all his courage and ingenuity to stay one step ahead of his pursuers.

• ISBN10: 0141033738
• ISBN13: 9780141033730
• Publish Date: 5 June 2008 (first published 1 October 1915)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 17 September 2015
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Imprint: Penguin Classics
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 160
• Language: English

Reviews

[Michael @ Knowledge Lost]

This book didn’t really engage me at all, I was expecting some exciting adventure about Espionage; but The thirty-nine steps didn’t deliver. There were some good bits but for the most of it I thought there interactions were too unrealistic. The movie is so much better, the book just felt like a bit of a miss.