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A review by dmcke013
The 39 Steps by John Buchan
3.0
Scottish novelist [a:John Buchan|3073|John Buchan|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1551287596p2/3073.jpg]'s 1915 classic, set just before the outbreak of World War One, and where the protagonist Richard Hannay finds himself involved in - and suspected of - a murder of a spy.
Whilst I was aware of this, and that it had been made into films, it's also a novel I'd actually never read before. I didn't even know that Buchan was Scottish - I've only recently found that out - but it is clear to see his love of the country in this, and in how he describes Hannay's game of Cat and Mouse over the Highlands,
Whilst I was aware of this, and that it had been made into films, it's also a novel I'd actually never read before. I didn't even know that Buchan was Scottish - I've only recently found that out - but it is clear to see his love of the country in this, and in how he describes Hannay's game of Cat and Mouse over the Highlands,