Which character made his second appearance in the 1916 novel Greenmantle?
Greenmantle Greenmantle Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character of Richard Hannay, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being "Mr Standfast" (1919); Hannay's first and best-known adventure, "The Thirty-Nine Steps" (1915), is set in the period immediately preceding the war. Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world, and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to meet his friend Sandy in Constantinople. Once there, he and his friends must thwart
Novel in Scotland disregarding nostalgia. Also important was the work of John Buchan (1875–1940), who played a major role in the creation of the modern thriller with "The Thirty-Nine Steps" (1915) and "Greenmantle" (1916). His prolific output included the historical novel "Witchwood" (1927), set in seventeenth-century Scotland, and the posthumously published "Sick Heart River" (1941), a study of physiological breakdown in the wilderness of Canada (of which Buchan was governor-general from 1936 until his death). His work was an important link between the tradition of Scot and Stevenson and the Scottish Renaissance. The Scottish literary Renaissance was an attempt to introduce modernism into