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The 39 Steps
by John Buchan
This book has very little to do with the Hitchcock movie, or rather vice versa: a couple of the main plot points (innocent man gets caught up in spy plot, has to run thru Scotland to stay ahead of the police and to prove his innocence) and a couple of twists; but some of the main points in the movie are pure fabrication: there is no music hall setting (minor point) and no woman brought in to the whole plot. There is actually no female characters at all, aside from a couple of unnamed women who are mentioned in passing.
That said, it's a fun first-person narrative thriller with lots of twists, tho a little provincial and oh so British.
The reader played the main character in the 1978 movie (which I understand is more closely based on the book than the Hitchcock film) and a subsequent British TV series. He did a great job with some of the dialects, especially the various Scottish characters who populate the middle section of the book.
That said, it's a fun first-person narrative thriller with lots of twists, tho a little provincial and oh so British.
The reader played the main character in the 1978 movie (which I understand is more closely based on the book than the Hitchcock film) and a subsequent British TV series. He did a great job with some of the dialects, especially the various Scottish characters who populate the middle section of the book.