The Thirty-nine Steps E-Book

John Buchan

• Herausgeber: Ktoczyta.pl
• Kategorie: Abenteuer, Thriller, Horror
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

London, May 1914. Europe is close to the First World War. Richard Hannay, a Scotsman raised in Rhodesia is living in London, and finds American Franklin Scudder at his door. Scudder is a photographer and free-lance spy and has information about a plot by the German spy ring, the Black Stone, to steal the British plans for war. Hannay later finds Scudder dead in his flat and decides he must carry on Scudder’s work. With both German spies and the police after, Hannay must solve the riddle of the thirty-nine steps alone.

Leseprobe

Contents

Chapter 1. The Man Who Died

Chapter 2. The Milkman Sets Out on his Travels

Chapter 3. The Adventure of the Literary Innkeeper

Chapter 4. The Adventure of the Radical Candidate

Chapter 5. The Adventure of the Spectacled Roadman

Chapter 6. The Adventure of the Bald Archaeologist

Chapter 7. The Dry-Fly Fisherman

Chapter 8. The Coming of the Black Stone

Chapter 9. The Thirty-Nine Steps

Chapter 10. Various Parties Converging on the Sea