burialshroud 's review for:

The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
2.0

Richard Hannay finds life so boring that he decides to get framed for murder, goes on the lam and becomes embroiled in some espionage. It's a perfectly adequate novel. I was on the Penguin Classics website flicking through the celebrity favourites, looking for a book to read. Ugh, they were all too long, or too about something boring so I ended up going with Jeffrey Archer's recommendation (?!), The Thirty-Nine Steps. Murder! Disguises! Espionage! Barely more than 100 pages long! Read it, don't read it. It's not life-changing.