The Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan · A short classic of pursuit and espionage
Public-domain classic by John Buchan · New NovelSpell edition
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A dead guest and a coded notebook send Richard Hannay fleeing toward Scotland, with the police to fear and a conspiracy's killers to evade.
The police may charge Richard Hannay with his guest's murder; the killers may silence him before he can explain. His offer of shelter to Franklin P. Scudder has left him carrying a warning into rural Scotland, with a June deadline and the threat of an assassination and a European war. His experience as a mining engineer helps him improvise disguises and size up strangers, while his dry humor keeps breaking through the fear. First published in 1915, this spy novel makes ordinary encounters matters of survival, as a resourceful fugitive judges whom to trust and how to pass unnoticed.
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The Thirty-Nine Steps was written by John Buchan and is now in the public domain. This is a new NovelSpell edition with a new cover.
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- John Buchan
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- 40,813 words
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- 2 hours, 44 minutes
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- English
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