Richard Hannay: Difference between revisions
Content added Content deleted
(Removed redirect to The Thirty-Nine Steps) Tag: Removed redirect |
(added information moved from The Thirty-Nine Steps) |
||
| (One intermediate revision by the same user not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{work}} |
{{work}} |
||
{{workstub}} |
|||
A thriller novel series by [[John Buchan]], featuring the eponymous spy. |
A thriller novel series by [[John Buchan]], featuring the eponymous spy. |
||
The novels, in order: |
The novels, in order: |
||
# ''[[The Thirty-Nine Steps]]'' (1915) |
# ''[[The Thirty-Nine Steps]]'' (1915) |
||
# ''[[Greenmantle]]'' (1916): Hannay and four friends make their way through wartime Europe to Turkey, searching for the truth behind the rumours of a German secret weapon that could throw the entire Muslim world into the war on the Germans' side. Sometimes considered to be one of the best books Buchan ever wrote; Hitchcock wanted to film it for years but never got around to it. |
|||
# ''[[Greenmantle]]'' (1916) |
|||
# ''[[Mr Standfast]]''{{sic}} (1919): An old enemy reappears and in the last pivotal days of [[World War I]] on the Western Front, Hannay wages a battle of wits. ''Finally'' introduces a [[Love Interest]] (she's worth the wait). |
|||
# ''[[Mr Standfast]]''{{sic}} (1919) |
|||
# ''[[The Three Hostages]]'' (1924): With [[World War I]] over, Sir Richard and Lady Hannay are enjoying a quiet life in the country, but when three young people are kidnapped and a mind-controlling genius starts [[Criminal Mind Games|leaving cryptic clues behind]], the pair of former spy-hunters have to go back to work. |
|||
# ''[[The Three Hostages]]'' (1924) |
|||
# ''[[The Island of Sheep]]'' (1936): Set roughly fourteen years after ''The Three Hostages''. Hannay and his son Peter John Hannay have to protect an old friend from fortune-hunters. |
|||
# ''[[The Island of Sheep]]'' (1936) |
|||
{{franchisetropes}} |
{{franchisetropes}} |
||
Latest revision as of 16:01, 12 April 2023
 | This Work page is a stub. You can help All The Tropes by expanding it. If you have checked or updated this page and found the content to be suitable, please remove this notice. |
A thriller novel series by John Buchan, featuring the eponymous spy.
The novels, in order:
- The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915)
- Greenmantle (1916): Hannay and four friends make their way through wartime Europe to Turkey, searching for the truth behind the rumours of a German secret weapon that could throw the entire Muslim world into the war on the Germans' side. Sometimes considered to be one of the best books Buchan ever wrote; Hitchcock wanted to film it for years but never got around to it.
- Mr Standfast [sic] (1919): An old enemy reappears and in the last pivotal days of World War I on the Western Front, Hannay wages a battle of wits. Finally introduces a Love Interest (she's worth the wait).
- The Three Hostages (1924): With World War I over, Sir Richard and Lady Hannay are enjoying a quiet life in the country, but when three young people are kidnapped and a mind-controlling genius starts leaving cryptic clues behind, the pair of former spy-hunters have to go back to work.
- The Island of Sheep (1936): Set roughly fourteen years after The Three Hostages. Hannay and his son Peter John Hannay have to protect an old friend from fortune-hunters.
The following tropes are common to many or all entries in the Richard Hannay franchise.
For tropes specific to individual installments, visit their respective work pages.
For tropes specific to individual installments, visit their respective work pages.
See the individual work pages for the applicable tropes.