Thirty-Nine Steps - Softcover

Neither fleeing from a murder scene nor being pursued by the henchmen of an enemy nation was not in Richard Hannay’s plans. A successful, still young South African mining engineer has arrived in England to pursue a peasant early retirement. Enter Mr. Scudder. A “loose gun” sort of patriot and spy, he barges into Hannay’s life with a harrowing and intricate, though incomplete, tale of imminent foreign plots. Only he, Franklin P. Scudder, has the information that will save the empire from disaster. But Hannay must shelter him while he escapes the enemy agents determined to kill him, so that he can notify his government contacts. Suddenly, Hannay awakens to find that it is he who must play that dangerous role—if only he can unravel the clues Scudder has revealed—if only he can escape the police who want him for murder and the enemy agents who have marked him for death.