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tree_and_leaf ([personal profile] tree_and_leaf) wrote 2007-05-22 05:26 pm (UTC)

Oh, and Buchan

If you specifically mean the Hannay-centric ones, I'd start at the beginning with the Thirty-Nine Steps. Actually Greenmantle (the second) is a better book, and Mr Standfast better yet, but it's worth reading them in order, I think.

If you just want to try Buchan, I'd recommend 'The Dancing Floor' (which is one of the ones with a more supernatural element) or 'The Courts of the Morning' (involving a revolution in South America), or, from the historicals, "The Free Fishers", or "Witchwood" (probably his best book). He was also a very good short story writer - there are some good anthologies. "John MacNab" is tremendous fun, too... sorry, this isn't very helpful, is it?

I have had this plot bunny for ages about a Hannay-Wimsey crossover, set in WWI (and involving the incident where Peter walks into a German staff room in disguise), but I'm having great difficulty getting the dates to work.

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