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The Thirty-Nine Steps

John Buchan

Crime e mistérioinglês
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In May 1914 Richard Hannay, a mining engineer just back from Africa and bored with London, lets a frightened neighbour into his flat. The man, an American…

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Autor
John Buchan
Categoria
Crime e mistério
Idioma
inglês
Fonte
Projeto Gutenberg

Sobre este livro

In May 1914 Richard Hannay, a mining engineer just back from Africa and bored with London, lets a frightened neighbour into his flat. The man, an American named Scudder, claims to have uncovered a German plot to steal British war plans, involving a secret group called the Black Stone. A few days later Hannay finds him dead on the floor with a knife through his heart, and flees north to the moors of Scotland, chased by both the police and the spies.

Contexto e importância

John Buchan (1875–1940) wrote the novel in late 1914 while recovering from illness, and published it in 1915; it created the modern thriller of the innocent man on the run, later perfected in Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 film. Buchan was also a historian, a politician and Governor General of Canada. For an older adventure across the Highlands, read Kidnapped.

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