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       John Buchan

      Spy & Mystery Collection: Major-General Hannay Novels, Dickson McCunn & Sir Edward Leithen Books

      The Greatest Tales of Mystery, Espionage & Nail-Biting Suspense

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      ISBN 978-80-7583-339-6

      Table of Contents

       Richard Hannay

       The Thirty-Nine Steps

       Greenmantle

       Mr Standfast

       The Three Hostages

       The Island of Sheep, or The Man from the Norlands

       The Courts of the Morning

       The Green Wildebeest: Sir Richard Hannay's Story

       Dickson Mccunn and the 'Gorbals Die-hards'

       Huntingtower

       Castle Gay

       The House of the Four Winds

       Sir Edward Leithen

       The Power-House

       John Macnab

       The Dancing Floor, or The Goddess from the Shades

       The Gap in the Curtain

       Sick Heart River, or Mountain Meadow

       Sing a Song of Sixpence: Sir Edward Leithen's Story

       Autobiography & Biography of John Buchan

       Memory Hold-the-door

       Unforgettable, Unforgotten by Anna Masterton Buchan

      RICHARD HANNAY

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      THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS

      Richard Hannay’s First Adventure

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       DEDICATION

       CHAPTER 1. THE MAN WHO DIED

       CHAPTER 2. THE MILKMAN SETS OUT ON HIS TRAVELS

       CHAPTER 3. THE ADVENTURE OF THE LITERARY INNKEEPER

       CHAPTER 4. THE ADVENTURE OF THE RADICAL CANDIDATE

       CHAPTER 5. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECTACLED ROADMAN

       CHAPTER 6. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BALD ARCHAEOLOGIST

       CHAPTER 7. THE DRY-FLY FISHERMAN

       CHAPTER 8. THE COMING OF THE BLACK STONE

       CHAPTER 9. THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS

       CHAPTER 10. VARIOUS PARTIES CONVERGING ON THE SEA

      DEDICATION

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      TO THOMAS ARTHUR NELSON

       (LOTHIAN AND BORDER HORSE)

      My Dear Tommy,

      You and I have long cherished an affection for that elemental type of tale which Americans call the ‘dime novel’ and which we know as the ‘shocker’—the romance where the incidents defy the probabilities, and march just inside the borders of the possible. During an illness last winter I exhausted my store of those aids to cheerfulness, and was driven to write one for myself. This little volume is the result, and I should like to put your name on it in memory of our long friendship, in the days when the wildest fictions are so much less improbable than the facts.

      J.B.

      CHAPTER 1

       THE MAN WHO DIED

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      I returned from the City about three o’clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life. I had been three months in the Old Country, and was fed up with it. If anyone had told