A classic, compelling, mystery-spy novel written at the beginning of World War I. When Richard Hannay discovers a dead body pinned to the floor with a long knife, he finds himself running for his life across the hills of Scotland, framed for a murder he did not commit. Chased by the police and a mysterious group known as "Black Stone," Hannay struggles to stay alive and stop the theft of naval secrets by an unfriendly foreign power. The first book in the Hannay detective series.