Richard Hannay is thoroughly bored with London. Then a murder is commited in his flat. 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.

Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is 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 which could have dire international consequences.

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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 must thwart the Germans' plans to use religion to help them win the war, climaxing at the battle of Erzurum.

John Buchan wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps while he was seriously ill at the beginning of the First World War. In it he introduces his most famous hero, Richard Hannay, who, despite claiming to be an 'ordinary fellow', is caught up in the dramatic race against a plot to devastate the British war effort. Hannay is hunted across the Scottish moors by police and spy-ring alike, and must outwit his ...

Epic adventure stories with vivid period feel and appeal to adventure fans of all ages.

Dickson McCunn, a respectable, newly retired grocer of romantic heart, plans a modest walking holiday in the hills of south-west Scotland. He meets a young English poet and, contrary to his better sense, finds himself in the thick of a plot involving the kidnapping of a Russian princess, who is held prisoner in the rambling mansion, Huntingtower. This modern fairy-tale is also a gripping ...

In Greenmantle (1916) Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. He is joined by three more of Buchan's heroes: Peter Pienaar, the old Boer Scout; John S. Blenkiron, the American determined to fight the Kaiser; and Sandy Arbuthnot, Greenmantle himself, modelled on Lawrence of Arabia. The intrepid four move in ...

Mr Hawthorn himself steps outside to allow his porridge to cool and disappears for 5 years and more, a Glasgow grocer is shipwrecked and worshipped as a god, a young mathematician discovers an entirely new aspect of reality and becomes terrified by what he finds there, and an ageing sinner clings grimly, weakly to a hard-won life of decency.

When his friend Charles Pitt-Heron vanishes, Sir Edward Leithen is not too worried. But a series of strange events convince Leithen that he is dealing with a sinister secret society, 'The Power-House'. The authorities have no evidence, and as he gets more deeply involved with the underworld, Leithen finds himself alone and in terrible danger.

Epic adventure stories with vivid period feel and appeal to adventure fans of all ages.

A classic espionage adventure featuring Richard Hannay, hero of THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS, who here travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah.

Epic adventure stories with vivid period feel and appeal to adventure fans of all ages.

Richard Hannay gets caught up quite suddenly on a dull London afternoon in a situation of extreme danger. Before he knows what is happening he is the obvious suspect for a murder committed in his own flat, and has to go on the run to his native Scotland.

Richard Hannay travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. He is joined by three more heroes: Peter Pienaar; John S Blenkiron; and, Sandy Arbuthnot. They move in disguise through Germany to Constantinople and the Russian border to face their enemies: the grotesque Stumm and the evil beauty of Hilda von Einem.

Three high-flying men who suffer from boredom concoct a plan to cure it. They inform 3 Scottish estates that they will poach from each two stags and a salmon. They sign collectively as 'John McNab' and await the responses. Part of the Leithen Stories series, this novel discusses the hunting, shooting and fishing lifestyle in Highland Scotland.

Epic adventure stories with vivid period feel and appeal to adventure fans of all ages.

Epic adventure stories with vivid period feel and appeal to adventure fans of all ages.

Epic adventure stories with vivid period feel and appeal to adventure fans of all ages.

Each volume in the Collector's Library series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword is by leading UK playwright, novelist and eminent Sherlockian, David Stuart Davies.