John Buchan

The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan

The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It first appeared as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine in August and September 1915 before being published in book form in October that year by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh. The novel is set during May and June 1914; war was impending in Europe, Richard Hannay the protagonist and narrator, returns to his new home, a flat in London, after living in Rhodesia, to begin a new life.