The Thirty-Nine Steps

A thrilling blend of adventure and spy novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps has been continuously in print since first publication in 1915 and has been adapted for stage and screen multiple times.

‘Ordinary fellow’ Richard Hannay returns home one night and is horrified to find a dead body. He recognises the murdered man as his American neighbour who, just a few days earlier, had warned him about a secretive organisation planning an assassination which threatens to plunge the country into war. Fearfu...