39 STEPS (PENGUIN RED CLASSICS)

Richard Hannay has just arrived back in London after years in South Africa, and is bored with the tranquillity of England. But then a murder happens in his flat, just days after an American told him of an assassination plot. Fearing he might be blamed for the murder, and hunted by the killers, Hannay flees to Scotland, where he must keep ahead of his pursuers.