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The Thirty-Nine Steps is the first and arguably the best among John Buchan's Richard Hannay thrillers. Chased by deadly conspirators, Scuddel seeks refuge at Hannay's residence. A few days later, Scuddel is found murdered and Hannay is accused of the crime. But once he is cleared he takes on the con... More

I sat and thought for a bit, for the name "Bullivant" carried me back eighteen months to the hot summer before the war. I had not seen the man since, though I had read about him in the papers. For more than a year I had been a busy battalion officer, with no other thought than to hammer a lot of raw... More

From "The Watcher by the Threshold": "I have told this story to many audiences with diverse results, and once again I take my reputation in my hands and brave the perils. To the common circle of my friends it was a romance for a winter's fire, and I, the most prosaic of men, was credited with a fan... More

I spent one-third of my journey looking out of the window of a first-class carriage, the next in a local motor-car following the course of a trout stream in a shallow valley, and the last tramping over a ridge of downland through great beech-woods to my quarters for the night. In the first part I wa... More