Hollywood Fraud

I’ve just finished re-reading The Thirty-Nine Steps and it was a real revelation. My mind has been so thoroughly polluted by the film that Mr. Buchan’s real story unfolded in completely unexpected directions, even though it can’t be more than a couple of years since I last did this slim volume. Not a bad thing from the entertainment point of view, but they really should have called the film something else because it’s so little like the story in the book.