num_pages: 108
description: Adventurer Richard Hannay has just returned from South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his London life - until a murder is committed in his flat, just days after the victim had warned him of an assassination plot that could bring Britain to the brink of war.
language: English
title: The Thirty-nine Steps
titlecomplete: The Thirty-nine Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
characters: Walter Bullivant, Richard Hannay
genres: Crime, Classics, Scotland, Espionage, Adventure, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Mystery
ratings_count: 39722
places: London, England, England, Scotland
series: Richard Hannay
publisher: Penguin Books