The Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan
Richard Hannay finds a murdered man in his London flat and goes on the run across Scotland, chased by the police and by the killers. Buchan’s first Hannay novel.
First published 1915 · 41,294 words · about 3 hours to read · 121 pages at 10.3″
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