Bernard Knowles

In 1914 with Europe on the brink of war, a young engineer from South Africa is involved in international intrigue by a British secret agent with information on a Prussian plot for assassination. When the agent is killed and his notes entrusted to the engineer, he is pursued across Britain and Scotland by the Prussians and the police who think he killed the agent. Its left to him to decipher the meaning of the thirty nine steps.

Sabotage: An undercover Scotland Yard detective infiltrates the home of a theatre operator who is suspected of sabotage. When the saboteur suspects he is being watched, he asks his nephew to deliver an explosive parcel across town. The lodger: The central character, called simply "The Lodger", is caught in the trap of other peoples' suspicions. Because this lodger, who is renting a room in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting, seems mysterious, he is...

Against her better judgment, the genteel young daughter of the village police chief protects and assists an escaped murder suspect, to whom she finds herself increasingly attracted. Together they race to find the real murderer. They desperately try to stay ahead of the police, but the risk of getting caught lurks everywhere-- from an abandoned barn to a child's birthday party.

"The 39 steps": Richard Hanney gets more than he bargained for when he brings home a frightened young woman who confesses to be a British agent on the trail of foreign spies. "Young and innocent": Starlet Christine Clay washes up on a seaside beach and is found by Robert. As he is running for help, he is spotted by swimmers who report him as the murderer. "Rich and strange": Fred Hill and his wife, Emily are a small-town couple leading an ordinary,...