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

by Stacy Stephens, Gustavo Bondoni, and John Buchan

John Keegan (Introduction)

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Famous as the basis for several films, including the brilliant 1935 version directed by Alfred Hitchcock, The Thirty-Nine Steps is a classic of early twentieth-century popular literature

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 that 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.

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  • ISBN10 0141441178
  • ISBN13 9780141441177
  • Publish Date 7 September 2004 (first published 1 October 1915)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Imprint Penguin Classics