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threats directed at the upper middle classes, of which
Drummond was a member. Drummond's nickname—Bulldog—is symbolic of England, and he and his English gentlemen friends—"the Breed"—fight the conspiracy of foreigners threatening England's stability. McNeile's thriller stories do not often pit Englishman against Englishman as the main characters; most of the foreigners in his books are the villains.
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melodrama". The academic Joan DelFattore points out that while the characters and plots cannot be considered to be unique, credible or well-rounded, his books "make no claim to literary excellence", and are instead, "good, solid thrillers". Usborne agrees, and believes that McNeile wrote good stories that were flawed but well told. Meyer classifies the non-war stories as
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November 1918. During the course of the war, he had spent a total of 32 months in France, and had probably been gassed more than once. His literary output from 1915 to 1918 accounted for more than 80 collected and uncollected stories. His brother—also in the Royal
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McNeile's fictional work—particularly his
Drummond series of books—shows characters who have served in the war and have been affected by it; Jaillant comments that Drummond's war-time experience "has shaped his social identity, his skills, and even his physical appearance". The Drummond character has
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Bayonet" and "Private Meyrick, Company Idiot", or "atmospheric vignette", such as "The Land of Topsy Turvy" and "The Human Touch". McNeile would write
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September 1918; during the year, he was again mentioned in dispatches. On 2 October 1918 he broke his ankle and was briefly hospitalised, which forced him to relinquish his command of the battalion on 4 October. He was on convalescent leave when the war ended in
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DelFattore outlines the use of double adjectives to reinforce feelings towards enemies in both his war stories and thrillers, such as "filthy, murdering Boche", and "stinking, cowardly
Bolshevik". She and the scholar Lise Jaillant also comment on the dehumanisation of the enemy, comparing them to
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reminded its readers that McNeile "has been called the foremost literary genius of the
British army." Jaillant observes that once McNeile moved from war stories to thrillers, with the concurrent re-positioning of advertising and marketing by Hodder & Stoughton, the reviewers also treated him
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agreed, adding that the female characters were "cardboard" and that McNeile was "wonderfully forgetful" about characters dead in one book and alive in the next. In the
Bulldog Drummond stories, Watson identifies the central character as "a melodramatic creation, workable only within a setting of
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about 1,000 words every morning in a routine that was rarely disturbed; he took no breaks while writing and would do no re-writes until he completed his work. The academic
Jessica Meyer has criticised his style as having "little aesthetic merit, being stylised, clichéd and often repetitive";
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selling 396,302 copies between 1920 and 1939, exceeding the 100,000-copies benchmark for "best-sellers". At his peak in the 1920s, he was the highest paid short story writer in the world, and it was estimated that in the last five years of his life he was earning around ÂŁ10,000 a year; the
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when he was diagnosed with terminal throat cancer. He came to an agreement with Fairlie for the play to continue after his death and for Fairlie to continue writing the Drummond stories. McNeile died on 14 August 1937 at his home in
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over the following months. Northcliffe was impressed by his writing and attempted, but failed, to have him released from the army to work as a war correspondent. By the end of 1915, he had written two collections of short stories,
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between 8 and 14 June 1916. The articles were aimed at young and new officers to explain their duties to them; these were collected together and published by Hodder & Stoughton later in 1916.
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and was promoted to acting lieutenant-colonel; the scholar Lawrence Treadwell observes that "for an engineer to command an infantry regiment was ... a rarity". 18th Battalion,
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Bourn disputes the Fairlie background to the character, noting that it was Fairlie who made the claim, although "he was still at school when Sapper created his ... hero".
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ceremony. The film earned $ 750,000 at the box office, and McNeile received an estimated £5,000 for the rights to his novel. The same year he wrote his second play—
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stories were considered by contemporary audiences as anti-sentimental, realistic depictions of the trenches, and as a "celebration of the qualities of the
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of the period, McNeile's go far beyond the 'polite' norms". J. D. Bourn considers his language to be "rather distasteful", while the academic
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The following year McNeile introduced the character of Jim Maitland, a "footloose sahib of the period". Maitland was the protagonist of the 1923 novel
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from 13 January 1915. As serving officers in the British Army were not permitted to publish under their own names except during their
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was finished by Fairlie and had a short tour of Brighton, Birmingham, Manchester and Edinburgh, before opening in London at the
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Englishmen defending England from foreigners plotting against it. Although he was seen at the time as "simply an upstanding
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1860:(Supplement). 27 December 1918. p. 15241.
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3177:(online ed.). Oxford University Press.
3069:(1988). "Herman Cyril McNeile (Sapper)". In
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1792:(Supplement). 11 January 1916. p. 579.
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4116:20th-century British screenwriters
3075:British Mystery Writers, 1920–1939
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777:was "Sapper from the waist up and
545:". After Carl Peterson's death in
492:. Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond
337:, both of which were published by
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4111:20th-century English male writers
3601:National Portrait Gallery, London
3532:
3506:Who Was Who, Volume 3 (1929–1940)
3431:The Bulldog Drummond Encyclopedia
3126:Ronald Colman: A Bio-bibliography
2503:"Funeral and Memorial Services".
1313:Jonathon Green names the play as
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4131:Military personnel from Cornwall
4081:Recipients of the Military Cross
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3859:Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police
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2248:. 13 October 1922. p. 7202.
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814:was a literary model for McNeile
582:during the 1921–22 season, with
214:Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
3558:Works by or about H. C. McNeile
3429:Treadwell, Lawrence P. (2001).
3061:(79). Diamond Publishing Group.
3059:The Book and Magazine Collector
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2877:"Sapper's Books Made ÂŁ85,000".
1605:. 12 January 1915. p. 381.
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4121:20th-century English novelists
3779:The Return of Bulldog Drummond
3708:The Return of Bulldog Drummond
3264:Johns Hopkins University Press
1840:. 16 March 1917. p. 2741.
1567:. 9 August 1907. p. 5450.
1501:"War Made 'Sapper' a Writer".
1232:The Return of Bulldog Drummond
1082:
1067:List of works by H. C. McNeile
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981:Sergeant Michael Cassidy, R.E.
938:Sergeant Michael Cassidy, R.E.
910:Sergeant Michael Cassidy, R.E.
347:Sergeant Michael Cassidy, R.E.
335:Sergeant Michael Cassidy, R.E.
56:and publishing under the name
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3883:Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
3787:Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
3548:Works by Herman Cyril McNeile
3013:Strange tales from the Strand
1587:. 24 June 1910. p. 4488.
1369:Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
1127:The ten Drummond novels are:
1006:The Times Literary Supplement
992:Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
976:The Times Literary Supplement
872:Sergeant Michael Cassidy, R.E
390:. In 1916 he was awarded the
269:destroyed by incendiary bombs
208:, he was further educated at
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4126:People from West Chiltington
3191:UK public library membership
1352:The Return of the Black Gang
1340:Bulldog Drummond Stands Fast
1328:Bulldog Drummond on Dartmoor
931:
862:, his series of articles in
756:Bulldog Drummond on Dartmoor
251:Arthur Baird Douglas of the
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120:novels and story collections
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3819:Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
3573:(public domain audiobooks)
1396:, p. xi: as quoted in
711:, a "comedy thriller" with
265:British Expeditionary Force
232:. He received promotion to
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3843:Bulldog Drummond in Africa
3827:Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
3130:Greenwood Publishing Group
2959:. New York. 10 March 1935.
1344:Hands Off Bulldog Drummond
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697:In 1935 McNeile, Fairlie,
472:In 1920 McNeile published
228:before a short posting to
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3694:The Female of the Species
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3198:Haycraft, Howard (2005).
3073:; Staley, Thomas (eds.).
2942:. New York. 11 June 1933.
1394:McNeile & Trewin 1983
1228:The Female of the Species
1145:The Female of the Species
958:Poster for the 1922 film
868:The Lieutenant and Others
748:Bulldog Drummond Hits Out
733:Bulldog Drummond Hits Out
686:—which was staged at the
351:The Lieutenant and Others
331:The Lieutenant and Others
4101:English thriller writers
4086:Royal Engineers officers
3953:(1941-1954 radio series)
3907:Calling Bulldog Drummond
3867:Bulldog Drummond's Bride
3835:Bulldog Drummond's Peril
3803:Bulldog Drummond Escapes
1891:Adrian & Symons 1992
1348:Calling Bulldog Drummond
1336:Captain Bulldog Drummond
1332:Bulldog Drummond Attacks
1161:Bull-Dog Drummond at Bay
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986:The Atlanta Constitution
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860:The Making of an Officer
719:, which was produced by
639:Bull-Dog Drummond at Bay
456:Advertisement placed in
367:The Making of an Officer
349:sold 135,000 copies and
345:, between 1916 and 1918
4106:Novelists from Cornwall
3875:Bulldog Drummond at Bay
3851:Arrest Bulldog Drummond
3811:Bulldog Drummond at Bay
3722:Bulldog Drummond at Bay
3526:(subscription required)
3435:McFarland & Company
3279:McNeile, H. C. (1920).
3246:Jaillant, Lise (2011).
3107:Routledge & K. Paul
3017:Oxford University Press
2953:"New Mystery Stories".
2936:"New Mystery Stories".
1820:(subscription required)
1002:Bulldog Drummond at Bay
890:First edition cover of
666:was released, starring
631:Ask for Ronald Standish
396:mentioned in dispatches
259:First World War service
97:. In 1920 he published
4091:British male novelists
3961:Parodies and pastiches
3915:Deadlier Than the Male
3582:Works by H. C. McNeile
3567:Works by H. C. McNeile
3539:Works by H. C. McNeile
3407:Lives of the Novelists
3287:Hodder & Stoughton
3223:Hynes, Samuel (1990).
3183:10.1093/ref:odnb/34810
3156:Hodder & Stoughton
2407:British Film Institute
2403:Film & TV Database
1315:Bulldog Drummond Again
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416:Hundred Days Offensive
339:Hodder & Stoughton
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3412:Yale University Press
3378:Panek, LeRoy (1981).
2866:. London. p. 66.
2399:"Bulldog Jack (1935)"
1245:Royal Adelphi Theatre
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3597:Portraits of McNeile
3206:Kessinger Publishing
1757:. London. p. 9.
1109:Blackwood's Magazine
1072:Notes and references
971:Men, Women, and Guns
658:The Best of O. Henry
611:The Island of Terror
355:Men, Women, and Guns
310:half-pay sabbaticals
173:McNeile was born in
46:Herman Cyril McNeile
3124:Frank, Sam (1997).
3040:The Macmillan Press
2926:, pp. 221–222.
2854:Fowler, Christopher
1712:, pp. 140–141.
1668:, pp. 163–164.
1025:(1922)—is when the
803:Style and technique
485:The Strand Magazine
388:Battle of the Somme
316:, the owner of the
294:, published in 1917
253:Cameron Highlanders
195:British Indian Army
82:, the owner of the
4076:People from Bodmin
3349:Neuburg, Victor E.
3331:Palgrave Macmillan
2956:The New York Times
2939:The New York Times
2413:on 14 January 2009
2245:The London Gazette
1938:The London Gazette
1877:The London Gazette
1857:The London Gazette
1837:The London Gazette
1789:The London Gazette
1603:The London Gazette
1584:The London Gazette
1564:The London Gazette
1371:for the US market.
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210:Cheltenham College
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3969:Bullshot Crummond
3934:Other adaptations
3543:Project Gutenberg
3520:978-0-7136-0170-1
3470:978-0-09-152821-8
3444:978-0-7864-0769-9
3433:. Jefferson, NC:
3421:978-0-300-18243-9
3393:978-0-87972-178-7
3386:. Popular Press.
3370:978-0-87972-233-3
3359:. Bowling Green:
3340:978-0-230-50076-1
3317:978-0-460-02245-3
3238:978-0-370-30451-9
3215:978-1-4191-2277-4
3204:. Whitefish, MT:
3189:(Subscription or
3139:978-0-313-26433-7
3116:978-0-7100-9642-5
3088:978-0-7876-3072-0
3071:Benstock, Bernard
3049:978-0-333-47592-8
3026:978-0-19-282997-9
2753:, pp. 69–70.
2522:, pp. 27–28.
2446:, pp. 26–27.
1447:, pp. 24–25.
1272:Carlyle Blackwell
1247:attended by King
1212:Bull-Dog Drummond
1187:Bull-Dog Drummond
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856:Old Contemptibles
830:Bull-Dog Drummond
619:The Saving Clause
584:Gerald du Maurier
580:Wyndham's Theatre
551:Bull-Dog Drummond
532:Nigel Strangeways
475:Bull-Dog Drummond
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