The Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan
1875 – 1940
ENPublic Domain
Summary
"The Thirty-Nine Steps" by John Buchan is an adventure novel published in 1915. Richard Hannay, a mining engineer from Rhodesia, finds himself caught in a deadly conspiracy when his neighbor is murdered in his London flat. Possessing only a cryptic coded notebook, Hannay flees to Scotland, pursued by both police and German spies seeking to steal Britain's naval secrets. Racing against time before war erupts across Europe, he must decipher the mystery of the thirty-nine steps and stop an international plot that could change history. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Subjects
- Hannay, Richard (Fictitious character) — Fiction
- Intelligence service — Great Britain — Fiction
- Spy stories
- World War, 1914-1918 — Fiction