《三十九级台阶》文笔细腻通俗，故事情节悬念丛生，跌宕起伏，惊险场面令人目不暇接。这部小说取得的成功除因惊险刺激、浪漫而又充满悬念的冒险外，还因作者将自己熟悉的政治上的间谍斗争引入其中，使得小说更加惊心动魄，更加扣人心弦。1935年，希区柯克将其改编成电影，由奥斯卡影帝罗伯特·多纳特主演，这部电影成为了电影史上最经典的悬疑片之一。

完美的构思，精彩的逻辑推理，引人入胜的刺激情节，使读者以紧张的心理状态，带着疑惑和推测，跟随故事的发展，享受一次次惊心动魄的破案之旅，让你的英语阅读欲罢不能。原汁原味的原著，更深入英语的真实和本质；惊悚悬疑题材的原著，又更能使读者在轻松快乐阅读之后，收获一份特别的感悟。

著名作家、旅居英伦多年、曾任英国国家广播公司制作人的董桥认为读英文侦探小说好处多。董桥说：“学英文有三苦，不在洋人环境长大学洋文学不进骨髓是一苦；死命默记文法语法是二苦；性情内向不喜结交洋人无从多说多练是三苦。而通过原汁原味的侦探小说便可化解这些苦处，苦中寻乐寻的自然是虚构天地的洋人百态。柴米油盐固然要学，亲疏爱恨人情世故也要懂得掌握分寸。小说多得不得了，读饱了感同自家经历，陌生的语言渐渐不太陌生，洋文洋话慢慢有了生活气息，不再学究。”

The 39 Steps 三十九级台阶

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 绿斗篷

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