![]() It is the first of the five novels featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a miraculous knack for getting himself out of tricky situations. It first appeared as a serial in Blackwood’s Magazine in August and September 1915 before being published in book form in October that year by William Blackwood and Sons. Written by the Scottish author John Buchan it is one of the earliest examples of the “man-on-the-run” archetype that subsequently became so readily adopted. The Thirty-Nine Steps is one of the great spy thrillers of the twentieth century. John Buchan (1915), The Thirty-Nine Steps “I was not a murderer, but I had become an unholy liar, a shameless impostor, and a highwayman with a marked taste for expensive motor-cars.” ![]()
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