Theatre Review: 'The 39 Steps' at The Little Theatre of Alexandria
John Buchan's 1915 novella The 39 Steps hasn’t survived so long because it’s a great story. In fact, it might have lasted precisely because it's not. The thread of the plot is so thin, but the proto-Bond exploits so entertaining, that this “shocker”–as Buchan called the genre–has lent itself to liberal adaptation and eventually parody. […]