The Thirty-Nine Steps
Author: Buchan, John
ISBN: 9780241341254
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2018
Pages: 128
Dimensions: 195mm x 128mm x 8mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series
'My guest was lying sprawled on his back. There was a long knife through his heart which skewered him to the floor'
Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then 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. An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, Hannay goes on the run in his native Scotland where he will need all his courage and ingenuity to stay one step ahead of his pursuers.
The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.
ISBN: 9780241341254
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2018
Pages: 128
Dimensions: 195mm x 128mm x 8mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series
'My guest was lying sprawled on his back. There was a long knife through his heart which skewered him to the floor'
Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then 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. An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, Hannay goes on the run in his native Scotland where he will need all his courage and ingenuity to stay one step ahead of his pursuers.
The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.
