![]() ![]() The Thirty-Nine Steps is his most famous work, published in 1915 and set during the run-up to World War I. John Buchan was one of the world's first spy novelists, and did a similar job for the genre as J. Hunted by both policemen and enemy spies, Hannay takes to the Scottish moors in a desperate bid to stay one step ahead of the enemy until he can thwart their evil plans. Hannay agrees to hide Scudder in his London flat, but a few days later Scudder is murdered there by enemy agents and Hannay realizes he will be accused of the crime. ![]() The conspirators are on Scudder's track and his only hope was to stage his own suicide and lie low for a while. That night his supposedly dead neighbour, a man called Scudder, meets him and tells him the tall tale of an international conspiracy determined to start a war. Then, one evening, he returns home to discover his downstairs neighbour has been murdered. Richard Hannay has just returned to London from years in Rhodesia, and he is bored. The Thirty-Nine Steps is a thriller novel by John Buchan. ![]()
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