"Who wrote ""The Thirty Nine Steps""?"
The Thirty-Nine Steps to Buchan. They were replaced by concrete, and this set of steps still runs from the garden to the beach. The Thirty-Nine Steps The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. 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, Edinburgh. It is the first of five novels featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a miraculous knack for getting himself out of sticky situations. The novel formed the basis
The Thirty-Nine Steps British authorities. The plot is thwarted, and the United Kingdom enters the First World War, having kept its military secrets from the enemy. On the outbreak of war, Hannay joins the New Army and is immediately commissioned captain. "The Thirty-Nine Steps" is one of the earliest examples of the 'man-on-the-run' thriller archetype subsequently adopted by film makers as an often-used plot device. In "The Thirty-Nine Steps", Buchan holds up Richard Hannay as an example to his readers of an ordinary man who puts his country's interests before his own safety. The story was a great success with the men in