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The Thirty-Nine Steps

John Buchan

Form
Form Novella
Year
Year 1915
Pages
Pages 140

A bored Londoner is framed for a murder in his own flat and flees across the Scottish moors, hunted by police and foreign spies alike, until he cracks the code behind a plot to steal Britain's war plans before it can succeed.

I returned from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life.
The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan

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