H. C. McNeile
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Herman Cyril McNeile, MC, commonly known as Cyril McNeile and publishing under the name H. C. McNeile or the pseudonym Sapper, was a British soldier and author. Drawing on his experiences in the trenc
McNeile, 1930s Portrait by Howard Coster
US cover of No Man's Land, published in 1917
Lobby card for US screenings of the 1922 film, Bulldog Drummond
O. Henry was a literary model for McNeile
Bulldog Drummond (novel)
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Bull-dog Drummond was the first Bulldog Drummond novel, written by H. C. McNeile under the pen name Sapper. Following serialisation in Hutchinson's Story Magazine from September 1919 to July 1920 unde
H. C. McNeile
…the Royal Engineers. After the war McNeile left the army and continued writing, although he changed from war stories to thrillers. In 1920 he published Bulldog Drummond, whose eponymous hero became his best-known creation. The character was based on McNeile himself, on his friend Gerard Fairlie and on English gentlemen…
First edition cover of Bulldog Drummond