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THREE HOSTAGES by BUCHAN JOHN
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Richard Hannay Adventures Ser.
After distinguished service in the First World War, Richard Hannay settles into peaceful domesticity with his wife Mary and their young son. However, news comes to him of three kidnappings. With no more than a few tantalisingly cryptic lines of verse as clues, he is soon on the trail of Dominick Medina ...Show more
The 39 Steps by Patrick Barlow (Adapted by); John Buchan
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
From the Movie by Alfred Hitchcock, Licensed by ITV Global Entertainment Limited and an original concept by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon Characters: 3m, 1f Comedy WINNER 2 Tony(R) and Drama Desk Awards, 2008 WINNER BEST NEW COMEDY Laurence Olivier Award, 2007 The 39 Steps, is Broadway's longest running ...Show more
The 39 Steps by John Buchan; John M. Burns (Illustrator); Jim Lavery (Illustrator)
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Classics Illustrated Ser.
May 1914: Europe is on the brink of war. London is riddled with spies. Richard Hannay has just returned from Rhosesia, and intends to begin a new, quiet, sedentary life. But a shady man named Franklin Scudder calls on him for help. Scudder is a freelance spy who has just uncovered a German plot to murde ...Show more
The Battle of the Somme: The First and Second Phase by John Buchan
Category: Military
Published as a short work just a year after the battle, John Buchan's account of the first two phases of the Battle of the Somme, one of bloodiest battles of the Great War, leap off the page a century on. Buchan goes beyond the first day of the Somme to provide a valuable account of the extended battle ...Show more
The Best of John Buchan : Three rip-roaring Richard Hannay thrillers :The Thirty-nine Steps / Greenmantle / Mr Standfast by John Buchan
Category: Fiction
For thriller fans who have fought the Boche with Richard Hannay before, this collection puts you right back in the firing line, and for anyone who's used to seeing their secret agents weighed down by gadgets and gizmos, Hannay shows you how a real man survives with just skill, determination and sheer gu ...Show more
The Complete Richard Hannay Stories by John Buchan
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Major General Sir Richard Hannay is the fictional secret agent created by writer and diplomat John Buchan, who was himself an Intelligence officer during the First World War. The strong and silent type, combining the dour temperament of the Scot with the stiff upper lip of the Englishman, Hannay is pre- ...Show more
The Free Fishers by John Buchan
Category: Fiction
When Anthony Lammas, minister of the Kirk and Professor of Logic at St Andrews University, leaves his home town for London on business, he little imagines that within two days he will be deeply entangled in a web of mystery and intrigue. But he's no ordinary professor. His boyhood allegiance to a brothe ...Show more
The Gap in the Curtain by John Buchan
Category: Classics
As I took my place at the dinner-table I realised that I was not the only tired mortal in Lady Flambard's Whitsuntide party. Mayot, who sat opposite me, had dark pouches under his eyes and that unwholesome high complexion which in a certain type of physique means that the arteries are working badly. I k ...Show more
The Island of Sheep by John Buchan
Category: Classic | Series: Wordsworth Classics
In this, his final adventure, Buchan's hero Richard Hannay becomes embroiled in one of the most hazardous escapades of his life. Two men are honour bound to help the tormented Valdemar Haraldsen, and a third decides to mastermind the whole affair out of a sheer love of adventure and a dislike of villain ...Show more
The Strange Adventures Of Mr Andrew Hawthorn & Other Stories by BUCHAN JOHN
Category: Classic Fiction
In "The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn" and the other stories in this collection, peculiar worlds of temptation, adventure or iniquity are perilously close at hand. Mr. Hawthorn himself steps outside to allow his porridge to cool and disappears for five years and more, a Glasgow grocer is ship ...Show more
The Thirty-Nine Step by John Buchan (The Surgery, Powys)
Category: Fiction
I returned from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life. I had been three months in the Old Country, and was fed up with it. If anyone had told me a year ago that I would have been feeling like that I should have laughed at him; but there was the fact. The weat ...Show more