Composed by Massachusetts musician Larry Unger, who told Susan Songer (The Portland Collection) that his inspiration for the title was Alfred Hitchcock’s movie The 39 Steps, which features a character with a similar name. This is one of the post-ragtime "rags" that fiddlers and mandolin players developed using the syncopated rhythms of the ragtime tradition. Other rags/blues tunes in this collections are: "Cherry River Rag" "Colored Aristocracy" "Dora Dean" "L & N Rag" "Old Jackson Stomp" "Pig Ankle Rag" "Ragtime Annie" - all in the Tunes section and "East Tennessee Blues" "Eli Green's Cakewalk" "Hawkin's Rag" "Sister Kate" "Stone's Rag" "Woody's Rag" - in the Legacies section. I learned this at our Monday night jam.