John Buchan

The thirty-nine steps: Recently returned from Rhodesia to London, Hannay is enlisted to help a freelance spy who has uncovered a German plot to assassinate the Greek premier and steal British plans for the outbreak of the war. Greenmantle: Hannay is recruited by the Foreign Office to investigate uprisings in the Muslim world, and to thwart the German's plans to use religion to help them win the war.

"Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to 1930's London. After a disturbance at a music hall, he meets Annabella Smith, who is on the run from foreign agents ... [later that night] they are followed, Annabella is murdered, and Hannay must break the spy ring and prove his innocence."--Container.

Follows the excapades of Richard Hanney, who stumbles into a conspiracy that involves him in a hectic chase across the Scottish moors.

Jamaican Inn: An Irish orphan girl goes to live with an uncle who is discovered to be involved in a group of smuggling highwaymen ravaging the area. Sabotage: An undercover Scotland yard detective infiltrates the home of a theatre operator who is suspected of sabotage. The 39 steps: Character Richard Hanney stumbles into a conspiracy that involves him in a hectic chase across the Scottish moors. Easy virtue: A woman goes through a divorce and attempts...