Oxford Bookworms Library 4 - Oxford Bookworms Library Level 4: The Thirty-Nine Steps

‘I turned on the light, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the corner that made my blood turn cold. Scudder was lying on his back. There was a long knife through his heart, pinning him to the floor.’ Soon Richard Hannay is running for his life across the hills of Scotland. The police are chasing him for a murder he did not do, and another, more dangerous, enemy is chasing him as well – the mysterious ‘Black Stone’. Who are these people? And why do they want Hannay dead?