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John Buchan was an industrious writer, editor, publisher and politician, producing over seventy works of fiction and non-fiction from novels to biographies and histories, plus a number of short stories, essays and articles. Today he is best known as the author of spy thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), but he achieved many notable appointments in his life, including that of Governor-General of Canada.
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Buchan, John, Memory Hold-the-Door (1940; repr. London: Dent, 1984).
Buchan, William, John Buchan: A Memoir (London: Harrap, 1985).
Butts, Dennis, ‘The Hunter and the Hunted: The Suspense Novels of John Buchan’, in Spy Thrillers: From Buchan to le Carré, ed. by Clive Bloom (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990), pp. 44–58.
Donald, Miles, ‘John Buchan: The Reader’s Trap’, in Spy Thrillers: From Buchan to le Carré, ed. by Clive Bloom (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990), pp. 59–72.
Lownie, Andrew, John Buchan: The Presbyterian Cavalier (London: Constable, 1995).
MacDonald, Kate, John Buchan: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction (Jefferson: McFarland & Co., 2009).
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Phillips, A. (2020). John Buchan (1875–1940), 1915: The Thirty-Nine Steps. In: Miskimmin, E. (eds) 100 British Crime Writers. Crime Files. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-31902-9_21
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