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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 [[Criminal Mind Games|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.
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