The thirty-nine steps
(Book)

"This is a Franklin mystery"--Title page verso.

Spine title: The 39 steps.

"Edward Gorey's interior illustrations and cover panel first appeared in 1967 in a Swiss edition ..."--Colophon.

Black hardcover with lettering and rules in gilt on spine; gilt double frame on both covers with full-page black and white illustration of the thirty-nine steps affixed to upper cover within the frame; black and white patterned endpapers; black silhouette of two figures, one of them Holmes, above series title on series half-title page; introduction ([1] leaf) by the editors following half-title page; black and white illustration of the thirty-nine steps on t.p.; set in Baskerville type; edges of paper gilt.

Richard Hannay, who, despite claiming to be an "ordinary fellow," is caught up in the dramatic and dangerous race against a plot to devastate the British war effort.