The 39 Steps by John Buchan (Richard Hannay #1)

The Thirty-Nine Steps is the first of five novels featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a miraculous knack for getting himself out of sticky situations. The novel is set during May and June 1914; war was evident in Europe, Richard Hannay the protagonist and narrator, an expatriate Scot, returns to his new home, a flat in London, after a long stay in Rhodesia, in order to begin a new life. Richard Hannay’s boredom is soon relieved when the resourceful engineer is caught up in a web of secret codes, spies, and murder on the eve of The Great War. This exciting action-adventure story was the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1939 classic film of the same name. John Buchan (1875-1940) was Governor General of Canada and a popular novelist. Although condemned by some for anti-Semitic dialog in The Thirty-Nine Steps, his character’s sentiments do not represent the view of the author who was identified in Hitler’s Sonderfahndungsliste as a "Jewish sympathiser."
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Chapter 1. The Man Who Died - 00:00
Chapter 2. The Milkman Sets Out on his Travels - 29:47
Chapter 3. The Adventure of the Literary Innkeeper - 45:51
Chapter 4. The Adventure of the Radical Candidate - 1:15:34
Chapter 5. The Adventure of the Spectacled Roadman - 1:42:56
Chapter 6. The Adventure of the Bald Archaeologist - 2:05:42
Chapter 7. The Dry-Fly Fisherman - 2:41:54
Chapter 8. The Coming of the Black Stone - 3:07:59
Chapter 9. The Thirty-Nine Steps - 3:26:43
Chapter 10. Various Parties Converging on the Sea - 3:41:58
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[@TheRetro60s]

I love this classic spy story set in my homeland. Thank you.

[@lucyssweetjournaling]

Check out the same book but narrated by Tristan Teed. It is also on KZbin and is the best version I have heard.

[@paulahomer4669]

Lulu Franklin Couldn’t agree more. It is read with so much more colour. Love that he used a Scottish accent as it is set In Scotland.

[@helenswan705]

thanks for the tip!

[@paulahomer4669]

Check out version narrated by Tristan Teed it is excellent.

[@heli-crewhgs5285]

Not the best of reading voices. Try the Robert Powell version.

[@Robert-A-R]

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