The Thirty-Nine Steps — John Buchan
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by John Buchan
You and I have long cherished an affection for that elemental type of tale which Americans call the “dime novel” and which we know as the “shocker”—the romance where the incidents defy the probabilities, and march just inside the borders of the possible. During an illness last winter I exhausted my store of those aids to cheerfulness, and was driven to write one for myself. This little volume is the result, and I should like to put your name on it in memory of our long friendship, in the days when the wildest fictions are so much less improbable than the facts.
J.B.
Sept. 1915
Chapter I. The Man Who Died
I returned from the City about three o’clock on that May afternoon pretty…
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