The Thirty-Nine Steps will be the first book in our Thrillers and Espionage rights collection. When a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter with an American who had told him about an assassination plot which could have dire international consequences, Richard Hanny has no choice but to go on the run.Īn obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, he heads to his native Scotland to stay one step ahead of his pursuers, while figuring out them meaning of the cryptic reference to thirty-nine steps. 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. It was serialized in All-Story Weekly (5 12 June 1915) and Blackwood's Magazine (credited to 'H de V.', July September 1915) before being published in book form in October 1915 by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh. The 1935 film of The Thirty-Nine Steps, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, is often acclaimed a classic motion-picture thriller. The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel by Scottish author John Buchan - Wikipedia. John Buchan (1915), The Thirty-Nine Steps His Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) was the most popular of his series of secret-service thrillers and the first of many to feature Richard Hannay.
“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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