- Hannay, richard (fictitious character), fiction, Great britain, fiction, Fiction, espionage, English language
Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly 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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Classical in form, earnest, resolved and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- John Buchan
- First published
- 1915
- Pages
- 116
- Publisher
- D.R. Godine, IndyPublish.com, ReadHowYouWant.com
- Editions
- 881
- Language
- Italian, German, French, und
- ISBN
- 9781974693566
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“I returned from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life.”
A Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation (<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Buchan>Wikipedia</a>).
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