The Thirty-Nine Steps
Feb 02, 2022
2 minutes
by John Buchan
Jack Watkins
IN 1914, convalescing after sickness arising from a duodenal ulcer, a restless John Buchan amused himself by writing a thriller. He had enjoyed success the previous year with the serialisation of a similar work, The Power House (published in book form in 1916), but the response to The Thirty-Nine Steps was immediate.
‘Few writers had the ability to move protagonists through a landscape
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