author
H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile
1888–1937
Best known as the creator of Bulldog Drummond, he turned wartime experience into brisk, popular thrillers under the pen name Sapper. His stories helped define the hard-driving British adventure tale of the years after World War I.
8 Audiobooks
No Man's Land
by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile
The Dinner Club
by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile
The Man in Ratcatcher, and Other Stories
by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile
Men, Women and Guns
by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile
Mufti
by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile
The Valley of the Shadow
by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile
Bull-dog Drummond: The Adventures of a Demobilised Officer Who Found Peace Dull
by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile
The seven missionaries
by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile
About the author
Born in Bodmin, Cornwall, in 1888, Herman Cyril McNeile served in the British Army and wrote under the names H. C. McNeile and Sapper. During the First World War he began publishing stories drawn from trench life, first appearing in the Daily Mail, and after leaving the army he became a full-time writer.
He is most closely associated with Bulldog Drummond, the ex-officer hero introduced in 1920. The character's mix of action, wit, and postwar restlessness made the books widely popular, and McNeile went on to write a string of Drummond novels as well as other thrillers and short fiction.
McNeile died in 1937, but his work remained influential in popular adventure and suspense fiction. Readers coming to him now will find fast-moving plots, a strong sense of period, and one of the early stars of the modern thriller.