The Thirty-Nine StepsTwenty new titles in the much loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series 'My guest was lying sprawled on his back. There was a long knife through his heart which skewered him to the floor' Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter with an American who had told him about an