The 1915 story made famous by Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 b&w film (and several versions thereafter), about a man who stumbles into a German spy plot just before the beginning of WWI. As Buchan himself acknowledged, the events of the story are unlikely are require a certain suspension of belief to follow it - which certainly describes a lot of older stories - but it's still quite fun to read (or listen to, as I did). I think of it in a similar vein as many of the H. Rider Haggard stories, which are adventure/thrillers and somewhat 'cheesy' to a degree, but still fun. I was glad to learn that there was a series of 'Richard Hannay' stories, and I intend to look for the rest. ( )