num_pages: 80
description: [Penguin Readers Level 3]The original and best adventure story ever told, with spies, thrilling chase scenes and explosionsMay 1914. Britain is on the eve of war with Germany. Richard Hannay is living a quiet life in London, but after a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger he stumbles into a hair-raising adventure—a desperate hunt across the country and against the clock, pursued by the police and a cunning, ruthless enemy. Hannay's life and the security of Britain are in grave peril, and everything rests on the solution to a baffling enigma: what are the thirty-nine steps?
language: English
title: The Thirty-Nine Steps
titlecomplete: The Thirty-Nine Steps
genres: Mystery
ratings_count: 66
publisher: Pearson ESL