《三十九級臺階》文筆細膩通俗，故事情節懸念叢生，跌宕起伏，驚險場面令人目不暇接。這部小說取得的成功除因驚險刺激、浪漫而又充滿懸念的冒險外，還因作者將自己熟悉的政治上的間諜鬥爭引入其中，使得小說*加驚心動魄，*加扣人心弦。1935年，希區柯克將其改編成電影，由奧斯卡影帝羅伯特·多納特主演，這部電影成為了電影***經典的懸疑片之一。

完美的構思，精彩的邏輯推理，引人入勝的刺激情節，使讀者以緊張 的心理狀態，帶著疑惑和推測，跟隨故事的發展，享受一次次驚心動魄的 破案之旅，讓你的英語閱讀欲罷不能。原汁原味的原著，更深入英語的真 實和本質；驚悚懸疑題材的原著，又更能使讀者在輕松快樂閱讀之後，收 獲一份特別的感悟。 著名作家、旅居英倫多年、曾任英國國家廣播公司制作人的董橋認為 讀英文偵探小說好處多。董橋說：“學英文有三苦，不在洋人環境長大學 洋文學不進骨髓是一苦；死命默記文法語法是二苦；性情內向不喜結交洋 人無從多說多練是三苦。而通過原汁原味的偵探小說便可化解這些苦處， 苦中尋樂尋的自然是虛構天地的洋人百態。柴米油鹽固然要學，親疏愛恨 人情世故也要懂得掌握分寸。小說多得不得了，讀飽了感同自家經歷，陌 生的語言漸漸不太陌生，洋文洋話慢慢有了生活氣息，不再學究。”

The 39 Steps 三十九級臺階
Chapter One
The Man Who Died
Chapter Two
The Milkman Sets Out on His Travels
Chapter Three
The Adventure of the Literary Innkeeper
Chapter Four
The Adventure of the Radical Candidate
Chapter Five
The Adventure of the Spectacled Roadman
Chapter Six
The Adventure of the Bald Archaeologist
Chapter Seven
The Dry-Fly Fisherman
Chapter Eight
The Coming of the Black Stone
Chapter Nine
The Thirty-Nine Steps
Chapter Ten
Various Parties Converging on the Sea
Greenmantle John Buchan 綠鬥篷
Chapter One
A Mission Is Proposed
Chapter Two
The Gathering of the Missionaries
Chapter Three
Peter Pienaar
Chapter Four
Adventures of Two Dutchmen on the Loose
Chapter Five
Further Adventures of the Same
Chapter Six
The Indiscretions of the Same
Chapter Seven
Christmastide
Chapter Eight
The Essen Barges
Chapter Nine
The Remm of the Straggler
Chapter Ten
The Garden-House of Suliman the Red
Chapter Eleven
The Companions of the Rosy Hours
Chapter Twelve
Four Missionaries See Light in Their Mission
Chapter Thirteen
I Move in Good Society
Chapter Fourteen
The Lady of the Mantilla
Chapter Fifteen
An Embarrassed Toilet
Chapter Sixteen
The Battered Caravanserai
Chapter Seventeen
Trouble by the Waters of Babylon
Chapter Eighteen
Sparrows on the Housetops
Chapter Nineteen
Greenmantle
Chapter Twenty
Peter Pienaar Goes to the Wars
Chapter Twenty-One
The Little Hill
Chapter Twenty-Two
The Guns of the North