The Thiry-Nine Steps

"The Thirty-Nine Steps" (1915) by John Buchan (1875-1940) is an adventure spy novel set at the beginning of World War I. Richard Hannay is visited in his London flat by a frantic stranger telling him of a political assassination plot and wanting to hide in his flat. When Hannay finds him murdered, his own life is now at stake, wanted by police and a dangerous international spy ring, where he discovers the sinister details of the plot in a black notebook written in code.

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