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The Thirty Nine Steps, all bar one film version are different yet better than the books. This is because (and like the football score announcer if this classic is on your list of still to read - look away now). . .
In the book, the 39 steps turn out to be. . . 39 steps! It is a sort of an extra assurance that the baddies will find their comrades on the jetty.
Ok, nowt wrong with them just being steps, but when you watch the films first and see the writers come up with all sorts of fantastic variations, then to then read about a mossy old stinky set of stone steps on a jetty is an anti-climax.
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