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1) The 39 Steps
Author
Series
Description
Europe is close to war and spies are everywhere. Richard Hannay the protagonist and narrator, an expatriate Scot, returns to his new home, a flat in London, after a long stay in Rhodesia, in order to begin a new life. One night he is buttonholed by a stranger, a well-travelled American, who claims to be in fear for his life. The man appears to know of an anarchist plot to destabilise Europe, beginning with a plan to assassinate the Greek Premier,...
4) The 39 Steps
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
The 39 Steps is a heart-racing spy story by Alfred Hitchcock, following Richard Hannay, who stumbles into a conspiracy that thrusts him into a hectic chase across the Scottish moors. A chase in which he is both the pursuer and the pursued, as well as into an expected romance with the cool Pamela
5) The 39 steps
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Wrongfully accused of murder, Richard Hannay finds himself on a roller coaster action adventure full of excitement, drama, danger, fun, and romance as he attempts to save the nation from invasion. On the run from spies and the police, the last thing he expected was to be stuck with Victoria Sinclair, an opinionated suffragette, but their mutual loathing turns to romance as they find themselves facing death together.
7) The 39 steps
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
"Richard Hannay is on vacation in London when he meets a mysterious woman who tells him of a spy ring which she is trying to crack. She doesn't know the identity of the masterspy, but does know a few revealing details. Later she is murdered-- before Hannay can learn anything more. His own life now in danger, Hannay sets out to solve a mystery."--Container.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
The lady vanishes (1938): While traveling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.
I cover the waterfront (1933): An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.
Algiers (1938): Beautiful Gaby meets a romantic jewel thief in the mysterious Casbah.
The scarlet letter (1934): In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear...