by John Buchan · Penguin Books, Limited (UK) · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140621099
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«The Thirty-Nine Steps» is the suspense and adventure novel by John Buchan, published by Penguin Books in paperback (112 pages, in English).
Richard Hannay has just returned from South Africa and is bored in London until a man is murdered in his apartment after warning him of a plot to provoke a war. Suspected by the police and targeted by spies, he flees to Scotland and must use his wits to warn the government in time.
First installment of the Richard Hannay series. The novel was originally published in 1915; this edition belongs to the Penguin Popular Classics collection.
For readers of classic adventure and espionage novels, and for those who want to discover the story that inspired Alfred Hitchcock.
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir was a Scottish novelist, historian, British Army officer, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation.
