Thirty-Nine Steps - Hardcover
Perhaps more than any other book "The Thirty-Nine Steps" has set the pattern for the story of the chase for a wanted man. And, of the many writers who have attempted this kind of thing since Buchan, only a very few, like Graham Greene, have managed to sustain the tension in the same way. The main character is Buchan's familiar hero, Richard Hannay who gets caught up quite suddenly on a dull London afternoon in a situation of extreme danger. Before he knows what is happening he is the obvious suspect for a murder committed in his own flat, and has to go on the run to his native Scotland.
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In this classic tale of wartime espionage, Richard Hannay's living nightmare begins with the discovery of a dead man and a notebook with thirty-nine steps to uncover. David Robb stars as Hannay and Doctor Who’s Tom Baker plays his ally Sir Walter Bullivant, in this recording which pays homage to the classic Hitchcock film.
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John Buchan wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps while he was seriously ill at the beginning of the First World War. In it he introduces his most famous hero, Richard Hannay, who, despite claiming to be an 'ordinary fellow', is caught up in the dramatic race against a plot to devastate the British war effort.
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- PublisherPublic Affairs Pr
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 0891630457
- ISBN 13 9780891630456
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages158
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. The eighth volume published by The Mystery Library, a short-lived, 1970s project of the University Extension, University of California, San Diego. Buchan, a Scotish author and public servant who served the UK in a number of capacities during World War I and was governor-general of Canada when he died in 1940, originally published "The Thirty-nine Steps" in 1915. The book featured Richard Hannay, Scotish mining engineer raised in South Africa, racing against time and foreign agents plotting to destroy the British war effort in WWI. The novel became the basis for an Alfred Hitchcock film starring Richard Donat and Madeleine Carroll. This Mystery Library copy is a First Printing, First Edition Thus. About 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 207 pages including a frontispiece photo of Buchan, an introduction by writer Michael Gilbert, a bibliography and several appendices covering reviews of the novel and film, and still photos from the film, as well as b & w illustrations by Karl Nicholason. Quarter bound in black faux leather over brown paper-covered boards with a small, square graphic in the lower right corner of the front cover featuring a staircase and a man's face. Gold lettering on the spine. This copy is complete, clean and unmarked, with no visible or significant flaws. No dustjacket; it appears to have been issued without a dj. A very collectable copy from a regrettably limited Mystery Library series of about a dozen titles. Seller Inventory # 005717
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