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John Buchan

The Thirty-Nine Steps

Mystery, Thriller and Adventure

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Language
English
First published
1915
Reading time
177 minutes
Chapters
10 chapters

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Richard Hannay has come to London after years in southern Africa and is bored stiff, until a frightened neighbour knocks on his door with a tale of an international plot.

Soon the neighbour is dead in Hannay's flat, and Hannay is on the run across the hills and moors of Scotland, hunted by the police and by the conspirators alike. John Buchan wrote this short, fast thriller in 1914 and published it in 1915, and it set the pattern for countless stories of an innocent man on the run. Perfect for an evening of breathless adventure.

I returned from the City about three o’clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life. I had been three months in the Old Country, and was fed up with it. If anyone had told me a year ago that I would have been feeling like that I should have…

Chapter I. The Man Who Died

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Chapters

10 chapters
  1. Chapter I. The Man Who Died21 min
  2. Chapter II. The Milkman Sets Out on his Travels11 min
  3. Chapter III. The Adventure of the Literary Innkeeper20 min
  4. Chapter IV. The Adventure of the Radical Candidate19 min
  5. Chapter V. The Adventure of the Spectacled Roadman16 min
  6. Chapter VI. The Adventure of the Bald Archaeologist27 min
  7. Chapter VII. The Dry-Fly Fisherman18 min
  8. Chapter VIII. The Coming of the Black Stone13 min
  9. Chapter IX. The Thirty-Nine Steps12 min
  10. Chapter X. Various Parties Converging on the Sea24 min

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