The Thirty-Nine Steps

Name: The Thirty-Nine Steps
Author: John Buchan

Richard Hannay is bored in London until a stranger dies in his flat, leaving a notebook full of code and a plot against the country. He spends the rest of the book running across the Scottish moors with half the spies in Europe behind him. Buchan called it a shocker; it is also the model for nearly every man-on-the-run thriller since.
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Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time: About 2 hr 45 min
Where to find it: The secret bookcase in the west wing
Edition: Project Gutenberg, eBook #558. In the public domain in the United States.

The Thirty-Nine Steps

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