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John Buchan was born in Perth in 1875. He was educated at Hutchesons' Boys' Grammar School in Glasgow, and went on to scholarships at the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford. After graduation he produced a number of adventure novels.

List of Buchan's novels:

Sir Quixote of the Moors  (1895)
John Burnet of Barns  (1898)
A Lost Lady of Old Years  (1899)
The Half-Hearted  (1900)
A Lodge in the Wilderness  (1906)
Prester John  (1910)
Salute to Adventurers  (1915)
The Thirty-Nine Steps  (1915)
The Power-House  (1916)
Greenmantle  (1916)
Mr. Standfast  (1918)
The Path of the King  (1921)
Huntingtower  (1922)
Midwinter  (1923)
The Three Hostages  (1924)
John Macnab  (1925)
The Dancing Floor  (1926)
Witch Wood  (1927)
The Courts of the Morning  (1929)
Castle Gay  (1930)
The Blanket of the Dark  (1931)
The Gap in the Curtain  (1932)
The Magic Walking Stick  (1932)
A Prince of the Captivity  (1933)
The Free Fishers  (1934)
The House of the Four Winds  (1935)
The Island of Sheep  (1936)
Sick Heart River  (1941)

His novel "The Three Hostages" appeared in 1924, and has twenty-one chapters.