What Fiction are you reading this week, July 11, 2021?

[Staph]

25. I'm currently reading the Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan.

Many people have heard of the first one, The Thirty-nine Steps, written in 1915, as it was made into a film in 1935 by Alfred Hitchcock (and quite a few others over the years - Benedict Cumberbatch is making it into a limited series for Netflix). Richard Hannay is a mining engineer who made his money in southern Africa and has returned to the Old Country (England!) to relax in the big city. Late one night, his neighbor comes to him with a fantastical story about the planned assassination of the premier of Greece. When the neighbor is murdered (in such a way to put the blame on Hannay), Hannay disappears, to try to find out if the neighbor's little black book actually has real information about plans to start a war.

My library only has the first couple of books (The Thirty-nine Steps, and Greenmantle), but I've found one of the others on Project Gutenberg and the rest on Hoopla.