| The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan, Fiction, Mystery & Detective Contributor(s): Buchan, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 159224968X ISBN-13: 9781592249688 Publisher: Borgo Press OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2002 Annotation: Richard Hannay certainly didn't go looking for the mystery, but the mystery found him. It came in the form of a young American telling fantastic tales of international intrigue and murderous conspiracy. But the next morning he found the American dead--scewered through the heart to the floor of his apartment. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Action & Adventure - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 1000 |
| Physical Information: 0.36" H x 6.8" W x 8.62" (0.49 lbs) 140 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 13646 Reading Level: 7.4 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 7.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Richard Hannay certainly didn't go looking for the mystery. He was hardly a reader of the newspaper, let alone a fan of dime novels -- and all the same, the mystery found him. First in the form of a young American telling fantastic tales of international intrigue and murderous conspiracy. There was a cabal at work -- on a plot cleverly crafted to set the entire world at war with itself. The American meant to put a stop to it, but needed to be hidden for a week or two. Reluctantly, Hannay agreed to hide him. The next morning he found the American dead -- scewered through the heart to the floor of Hannay's own apartment. |
Contributor Bio(s): Buchan, John: - "John Buchan (1875 - 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation. After a brief legal career, Buchan simultaneously began his writing career and his political and diplomatic careers, serving as a private secretary to the colonial administrator of various colonies in southern Africa. He eventually wrote propaganda for the British war effort in the First World War. Buchan was in 1927 elected Member of Parliament for the Combined Scottish Universities, but he spent most of his time on his writing career, notably writing The Thirty-Nine Steps and other adventure fiction." |