Download or read book The Complete Richard Hannay written by John Buchan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1993-02-25 with total page 1305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains: Island of Sheep, Three Hostages, Mr Hostages, Mr Standfast, The 39 Steps.
Download or read book The Four Adventures of Richard Hannay written by John Buchan and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1988 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Buchan is the father of the modern spy thriller. This is so even though the Hannay books are not, strictly speaking, about spies at all in the professional sense of the word. They are about penetration of the enemy, about lonely escape and wild journeys, about the thin veneer that stands between civilsation and barbarism.
Download or read book The Three Hostages written by John Buchan and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-04-25T19:54:10Z with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1924, The Three Hostages is the fourth of John Buchan’s novels to feature Richard Hannay. Following the conclusion of the Great War, Hannay has retired from British intelligence. He is coaxed from retirement to aid in the rescue of three prominent hostages held by an international criminal organization bent on controlling the disturbed minds of those affected by the Great War. Hannay pretends to succumb to hypnotic mind control and secretly travels to a remote farm in Norway to continue the hostage search. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Download or read book The Thirty Nine Steps written by John Buchan and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous as the basis for several films, including the brilliant 1935 version directed by Alfred Hitchcock, The Thirty-Nine Steps is a classic of early twentieth-century popular literature. Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter with an American who had told him about an assassination plot that could have dire international consequences. An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, Hannay goes on the run in his native Scotland where he will need all his courage and ingenuity to stay one step ahead of his pursuers.
Download or read book Mr Standfast written by John Buchan and published by LA CASE Books. This book was released on 1921 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Mr Standfast” is a spy novel featuring Richard Hannay, written by John Buchan and published in 1919 by Hodder & Stoughton. Richard Hannay is recalled from the Western Front by his good friend Bullivant in order to be assigned a new mission. As always, the whole action revolves around identifying a master German spy who operates in Britain along with his agents. In order to find him out, he must adopt a disguise he truly dislikes, the one of a pacifist. He then travels to the Cotswolds as Cornelius Brand, a South African war objector, in order to penetrate a group of war-hating intellectuals. He falls in love with a young woman called Mary who is also part of the group. John Buchan is the inventor of the modern British spy novel.
Download or read book The Island of Sheep written by John Buchan and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic Richard Hannay adventure novel by John Buchan. Richard Hannay is now in his fifties but once more must throw himself into an adventure to uphold a an oath he made in his youth to protect the son of a man he once knew, the son being an heir to the secret of a great treasure.
Download or read book The Thirty One Kings written by Robert J Harris and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: June, 1940. Richard Hannay has returned.As German troops pour across France, the veteran soldier and adventurer Richard Hannay is called back into duty. In Paris, an individual code named “Roland” has disappeared and is assumed to be in the hands of Nazi agents. Only Roland knows the secret of the 31 Kings, a secret upon which the future of Europe depends. Hannay is dispatched to Paris to find Roland before the Germans overrun the city. On a hazardous journey across the battlefields of France, Hannay is joined by old friends and new allies as he confronts a ruthless foe who will stop at nothing to destroy him.
Download or read book The Thirty Nine Steps Diversion Classics written by John Buchan and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, the Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms. When Richard Hannay encounters a mysterious stranger fearing for his life, he is drawn into a plot of political conspiracy. As Hannay works to uncover the perpetrator of a string of crimes, he must race against time to keep England's military secrets safe. A pitch-perfect spy novel, THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS is essential reading for lovers of action, adventure, and suspense.
Download or read book Greenmantle written by John Buchan and published by London : Hodder and Stoughton. This book was released on 1916 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world, and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to meet his friend Sandy in Constantinople. Once there, he and his friends must thwart the Germans' plans to use religion to help them win the war, climaxing at the battle of Erzurum.
Download or read book The Thirty Nine Steps Illustrated written by John Buchan and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. It 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.
Download or read book Sick Heart River written by John Buchan and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2011-12-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Edward Leithen is given a year to live and decides to devote his last months to seeking out and restoring to health Galliard, a young Canadian banker, who is searching for the 'River of the Sick Heart'. Braving an Arctic winter, Leithen finds the banker and then his own health returns, yet only one of the men will return to civilization ....
Download or read book Mr Standfast written by John Buchan and published by London : Hodder & Stoughton, [1919]?.. This book was released on 1919 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The 39 Steps written by and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Adapted by Patrick Barlow from the novel by John Buchan; from the movie of Alfred Hitchcock licensed by ITV Global Entertainment Limited; and an original concept by Nobby Dimon and Simon Corble."
Download or read book Castle Macnab written by Robert J. Harris and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1920s Scotland a foreign dignitary on a secret visit has been abducted by men who plan to murder him. Veteran adventurer Richard Hannay must recruit three of his oldest friends to prevent a catastrophe that could plunge Europe into another war. It is a mission none of them ever expected to undertake, for the man they must rescue was once their sworn enemy – the Kaiser. As he and his allies pursue a desperate chase through the Highlands, Hannay discovers that he has stumbled upon an international conspiracy, one that shockingly involves a member of the British royal family. In Castle Macnab Robert J. Harris, bestselling author of The Thirty-One Kings, has created a new adventure for Richard Hannay and a sequel to John Buchan's classic novel John Macnab.
Download or read book The Red House Mystery written by A. A. Milne and published by Memorable Classics Books. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne - is a whodunnit by A. A. Milne, published in 1922. It was Milne's only mystery novel (except for Four Days Wonder). Plot introduction: The setting is an English country house, where Mark Ablett has been entertaining a house party consisting of a widow and her marriageable daughter, a retired major, a wilful actress, and Bill Beverley, a young man about town. Mark's long-lost brother Robert, the black sheep of the family, arrives from Australia and shortly thereafter is found dead, shot through the head. Mark Ablett has disappeared, so Tony Gillingham, a stranger who has just arrived to call on his friend Bill, decides to investigate. Gillingham plays Sherlock Holmes to his younger counterpart's Doctor Watson; they progress almost playfully through the novel while the clues mount up and the theories abound. Literary significance and criticism: The Red House Mystery was immediately popular; Alexander Woollcott called it "one of the three best mystery stories of all time", though Raymond Chandler, in his essay The Simple Art of Murder (1944), criticised Woollcott for that claim, referring to him as, "rather a fast man with a superlative". Chandler wrote of Milne's novel, "It is an agreeable book, light, amusing in the Punch style, written with a deceptive smoothness that is not as easy as it looks [...] Yet, however light in texture the story may be, it is offered as a problem of logic and deduction. If it is not that, it is nothing at all. There is nothing else for it to be. If the situation is false, you cannot even accept it as a light novel, for there is no story for the light novel to be about." In his introduction to the 1926 UK edition, A. A. Milne said he had "a passion" for detective stories, having "all sorts of curious preferences" about them: though in real life the best detectives and criminals are professionals, Milne demanded that the detective be an unscientific amateur, accompanied by a likable Watson, rubbing shoulders with an amateur villain against whom dossiers and fingerprints are of no avail.
Download or read book The Courts of the Morning written by John Buchan and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2009-01-02 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South America is the setting for this adventure from the author of 'The Thirty-nine Steps'. When Archie and Janet Roylance decide to travel to the Gran Seco to see its copper mines they find themselves caught up in dreadful danger; rebels have seized the city. Janet is taken hostage in the middle of the night and it is up to the dashing Don Luis de Marzaniga to aid her rescue.
Download or read book The Richard Hannay Trilogy the Thirty Nine Steps Greenmantle Mr Standfast written by John Buchan and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 weather made me liverish, the talk of the ordinary Englishman made me sick, I couldn't get enough exercise, and the amusements of London seemed as flat as soda-water that has been standing in the sun. 'Richard Hannay, ' I kept telling myself, 'you have got into the wrong ditch, my friend, and you had better climb out.' It made me bite my lips to think of the plans I had been building up those last years in Bulawayo. I had got my pile-not one of the big ones, but good enough for me; and I had figured out all kinds of ways of enjoying myself. My father had brought me out from Scotland at the age of six, and I had never been home since; so England was a sort of Arabian Nights to me, and I counted on stopping there for the rest of my days.
