The Thirty-Nine Steps, by John Buchan. Movie makers seemed to love this book and there have been several film and television versions, beginning with that of Alfred Hitchcock in 1935.

John Buchan wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps at breakneck speed in 1914, while suffering from the stomach ulcer that would dog him for the rest of his life. He was staying in a nursing home by the ...

Book review: Beyond The Thirty-Nine Steps - A Life Of John Buchan, by By Ursula Buchan. By Stuart Kelly. Published 2nd May 2019, 13:44 BST. Updated 2nd May 2019, 13:50 BST. Ursula Buchan.

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I was first introduced to John Buchan’s The Thirty-Nine Steps in an English class at the age of 12. The cover depicted a smoke-wreathed figure atop a stone staircase. The blurb told us that this book ...

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The Thirty-Nine Steps. Reviewed by Ken Hanke on October 7, 2014; ... (1935), but it’s hardly a faithful rendering of John Buchan’s book. It’s also neither as stylish, ...

In The Thirty Nine Steps, based on John Buchan's spy novel, players will step into the world that exists in the book and experience the incredible adventure of Richard Hannay in an interactive ...

KARACHI: In 1915, John Buchan published a novel The Thirty-Nine Steps. It was an action-packed story. In 1935, the legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock made a movie based on the book.