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    The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan is a British thriller novel from 1915. It follows Richard Hannay, a Scottish man who returns to Britain after living in Africa for 20 years. He befriends his neighbor Franklin Scudder, an American journalist investigating German spy plans before World War I. One evening, Hannay finds Scudder murdered and learns that Scudder has made him responsible for delivering important secrets to British authorities. Hannay goes on the run to escape German spies and clear his name.

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    The Thirty-nine Steps

    John Buchan

    Level: pre-intermediate
    Genre: thriller
    Length: long
    English: british

    Rating: +25 (from 33 votes)

    Richard Hannay was born in Scotland but had been leaving


    and working for 20 years in Africa. At the age of thirty-seven
    he returned to Britain as enough rich and happy young man.
    The events of the novel took place when Europe was on the
    threshold of the First World War. Meanwhile Richard
    became a neighbour with Franklin P. Scudder. It turned out
    Franklin was an American journalist who was writing about
    politics. He had managed to scout out the German spies plans
    as for hostilities outbreak. Every day Franklin told him some
    pieces of the stories and made certain notes into his black
    notebook. Although Richard was not interested in politics, he
    was just delighted with the journalist’s adventures. One
    evening our hero discovered his neighbour dead. Obliviously,
    Franklin passed the baton to Richard.

    Total words: 19008


    Unique words: 1074

    Words, you might not know:

    letterbox, coastguard, ruff, hullo, lord, rhodesian, farmyard, milkman, admiralty, detonator,
    arresting, pall, mil, wok, innkeeper.

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