The Thirty-Nine Steps 三十九级台阶
TO THOMAS ARTHUR NELSON(LOTHIAN AND BORDER HORSE)My Dear Tommy,You and I have long cherished an affection for that elemental type oftale which Americans call the \'dime novel\' and which we know as the\'shocker\' - the romance where the incidents defy the probabilities, andmarch just inside the borders of the possible.
TO THOMAS ARTHUR NELSON(LOTHIAN AND BORDER HORSE)My Dear Tommy,You and I have long cherished an affection for that elemental type oftale which Americans call the \'dime novel\' and which we know as the\'shocker\' - the romance where the incidents defy the probabilities, andmarch just inside the borders of the possible.