The Thirty-Nine Steps
By John Buchan
Cover: A Spate in the Highlands (1868) by Peter Graham (Scottish, 1836-1921) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
The Thirty-Nine Steps is a 1915 adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan, first published by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh. It was serialized in All-Story Weekly issues of 5 and 12 June 1915, and in Blackwood's Magazine (credited to "H. de V.") between July and September 1915, before being published in book form in October of that year. It is the first of five novels featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a knack for getting himself out of tricky situations.
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Table of contents
- 1: The Man Who Died
- 2: The Milkman Sets Out on his Travels
- 3: The Adventure of the Literary Innkeeper
- 4: The Adventure of the Radical Candidate
- 5: The Adventure of the Spectacled Roadman
- 6: The Adventure of the Bald Archaeologist
- 7: The Dry-Fly Fisherman
- 8: The Coming of the Black Stone
- 9: The Thirty-Nine Steps
- 10: Various Parties Converging on the Sea