A Lodge in the Wilderness

John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist and historian and also served as Canada's Governor General. His 100 works include nearly thirty novels, seven collections of short stories and biographies. But, the most famous of his books were the adventure and spy thrillers, most notably "The Thirty-Nine Steps", and it is for these that he is now best remembered. "A Lodge in the Wilderness" (1906) is a quasi-novel about an imaginary conference arranged by a multi-millionaire, Francis Carey,...