**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。
**作家、旅居英伦多年、曾任英国**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

《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*经典的悬疑片之一。