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Sapper *
a.k.a. Herman Cyril McNeile, H.C. McNeile
Author Code: ESAP
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Born: Sep. 28, 1888 - Bodmin, Cornwall, England Died: Aug. 14, 1937 - West Chiltington, Sussex, England
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Educated at Cheltenham College and the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, McNeile entered military service with the Royal Engineers in 1907. During the First World War he saw action in France and took part in the battles at Ypres. He received the Military Cross for bravery and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel before his retirement in 1919. He began contributing short stories to the Strand and the Daily Mail under the pseudonym of Sapper during the War and his work proved very popular. After retiring from the army, he embarked on a literary career that was extremely successful and made him one of the most popular writers of the interwar period. In 1920, he published The Adventures of a Demobilized Officer Who Found Peace Dull introducing the character of Bulldog Drummond, which subsequently replaced the rather extended title. The Drummond character was very popular and was made into films in the 1930'3 and 1940's. Sapper produced ten Bulldog Drummond works in all and countless short stories. These works include The Lieutenant and Others (1915), No Man's Land (1917), The Man in Ratcatcher (1921), The Dinner Club (1923), Out of the Blue (1925), The Final Count (1927), The Female of the Species (1928), The Finger of Fate (1930), The Island of Terror (1931), The Return of Bull-Dog Drummond (1932), When Caruthers Laughed (1934) and Challenge (1937). |
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Title/Sub-Title |
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ESAP006 |
The Black Gang
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1922 |
128 |
704k |
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ESAP002 |
Bulldog Drummond
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1920 |
148 |
775k |
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ESAP013 |
Bulldog Drummond at Bay
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1935 |
146 |
676k |
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ESAP020 |
Challenge
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1937 |
172 |
705k |
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ESAP015 |
The Female of the Species
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1928 |
144 |
661k |
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ESAP001 |
The Final Count
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1927 |
135 |
709k |
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ESAP012 |
The Finger of Fate
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The Black Monk
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The Diamond Hair-slide
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Fer De Lance
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The Finger of Fate
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The Green Death
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The Hidden Witness
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A Hopeless Case
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The Idol's Eye
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A Question of Identity
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A Question of Mud
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That Bullet Hole Has a History
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The Two-way Switch
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The Undoing of Mrs. Cransby
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Will You Walk into My Parlour?
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1930 |
157 |
766k |
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ESAP021 |
The Island of Terror [Illustrated]
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1931 |
132 |
781k |
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ESAP003 |
Jim Maitland
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1923 |
132 |
697k |
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ESAP019 |
Knock-Out
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1933 |
137 |
626k |
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ESAP023 |
The Lieutenant and Others
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The Aftermath
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The Black Sheep
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The Coward
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Driver Robert Brown
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Ebeneezer the Goat
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The End of "Wipers"
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James and the Land Mine
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The Lieutenant
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The Mine
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The Pepnotised Milk
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The Sixth Drunk
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Will You Take Over His Horse, Sir?
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1915 |
53 |
401k |
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ESAP022 |
The Man in Ratcatcher & Other Stories
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An Arrow At A Venture
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Good Hunting, Old Chap
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The House by the Headland
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The Man in Ratcatcher
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The Man Who Would Not Play Cards
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The Man with His Hand in His Pocket
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A Matter of Routine
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A Payment on Account
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The Poser
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A Question of Personality
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The Real Test
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The Unbroken Line
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1921 |
131 |
602k |
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ESAP025 |
Men, Women and Guns
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1916 |
108 |
470k |
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ESAP010 |
Mufti
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1919 |
131 |
726k |
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ESAP007 |
No Man's Land
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1917 |
123 |
727k |
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ESAP016 |
A Point of Detail
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1917 |
11 |
260k |
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ESAP009 |
The Return of Bulldog Drummond
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1932 |
138 |
689k |
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ESAP005 |
Ronald Standish
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The Creaking Door
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The Empty House
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The Haunted Rectory
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The House with the Kennels
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The Man in Yellow
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A Matter of Tar
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The Missing Chauffeur
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Mystery of the Slip Coach
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The Second Dog
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The Third Message
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The Tidal River
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1933 |
152 |
720k |
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ESAP008 |
The Saving Clause
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Billie Finds the Answer
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Cynthia Delmorton's Mistake
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The Eleventh Hour
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The Horror at Staveley Grange
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The Impassive Footman
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Rout of the Oliver Samuelsons
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The Rubber Strap
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The Saving Clause
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Three of a Kind
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1927 |
132 |
690k |
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ESAP024 |
Shorty Bill
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19*26 |
85 |
503k |
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ESAP018 |
Temple Tower
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1929 |
132 |
649k |
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ESAP011 |
The Third Round
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1924 |
132 |
711k |
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ESAP014 |
Tiny Carteret
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1930 |
139 |
656k |
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ESAP026 |
Was It Murder?
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1951 |
9 |
212k |
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ESAP004 |
When Carruthers Laughed
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The Baronets of Mertonbridge Hall
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The Broken Record
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Dilemma
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The Great Magor Diamond
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The Loyalty of Peter Drayton
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The Madness of Charles Tranter
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The Second Ride
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The Snake Farm
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A Student of the Obvious
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The Taming of Sydney Marsham
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Touch and Go
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When Carruthers Laughed
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1934 |
112 |
620k |
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ESAP017 |
Word of Honour
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Blackmail
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The Haunting of Jack Burnham
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The King of Hearts
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Marie
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A Matter of Voice
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The Message
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Mrs. Peter Skeffington's Revenge
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A Native Superstition
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The Other Side of the Wall
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The Professor's Christmas Party
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Two Photographs
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Word of Honour
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1926 |
123 |
547k |
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