Fortune faite en Afrique du Sud, Richard Hannay revient à Londres pour goûter pleinement une vie d'oisiveté. Ses plans sont boulersés par l'assassinat d'un homme dans son appartement. Le voici mêlé à une histoire...
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Nineteen-year-old David Crawfurd travels from Scotland to South Africa to work as a storekeeper. On the voyage he encounters again John Laputa, the celebrated Zulu minister, of whom he has strange memories.
In his remote store David finds...
This early (1924) spy adventure is one of five Buchan novels featuring the heroic Richard Hannay. Hannay is called out of retirement to rescue the kidnapped offspring of three highly placed British citizens. Hannay soon uncovers a global...
For those who like good, clean spy-type fun, this is a SUPERLATIVE work. Part three in the adventures of Richard Hannay (which started with Buchan's well-known "Thirty-nine Steps"), this is a first-rate thriller set on the eve of World War I,...
He has been feeling bored with London life - until he discovers a dead man in his flat, skewered to the floor with a knife through his heart. Only a few days before, the victim had warned him of an assassination plot that could bring the country...
WWI spy Richard Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world, and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to meet up with his friend Sandy in Constantinople.
Once there, he and his friends...
The Gap in the Curtain is a supernatural story full of suspense. Guests at a country house party are enabled by an eccentric scientist to see a glimpse of an issue of the Times dated a year ahead of...
"Salute to Adventurers" is a 1915 novel by John Buchan telling of a young Scotsman's adventures in the American colonies.
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When I was a child in short-coats a spaewife came to the town-end, and for a silver groat paid by...
Роман Джона Бекона «39 ступенек» — один из первых романов в стиле триллера, по которому сделан одноименный фильм знаменитым А....