The 39 Steps
by Patrick BarlowAbout
What do you get when you blend a juicy spy novel and a 1930's Hitchcock thriller, spice it up with parody and homage at the same time, and wrap it in a crazy package of imagination? The Thirty-Nine Steps! The story of Richard Hannay, a man wrongfully accused of murder who finds himself on the run from foreign agents and tied to a woman who hates his guts, is at the core of this virtuously constructed detective comedy with elements of slapstick and a touch of heart.