TY - BOOK AU - Buchan,John TI - The Thirty-Nine Steps AV - PR PY - 1996/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction KW - Spy stories KW - Hannay, Richard (Fictitious character) -- Fiction KW - Intelligence service -- Great Britain -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirty-Nine_Steps; Release date is 1996-06-01; Jo Churcher. HTML version by Al Haines. Corrections by Menno de Leeuw; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Thirty-Nine Steps" by John Buchan is an adventure novel published in 1915. Richard Hannay, a mining engineer from Rhodesia, finds himself caught in a deadly conspiracy when his neighbor is murdered in his London flat. Possessing only a cryptic coded notebook, Hannay flees to Scotland, pursued by both police and German spies seeking to steal Britain's naval secrets. Racing against time before war erupts across Europe, he must decipher the mystery of the thirty-nine steps and stop an international plot that could change history. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/558 ER -