Novels↙ | 15 |
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Articles↙ | 1 |
Stories↙ | 20 |
Collections↙ | 1 |
Plays↙ | 3 |
Scripts↙ | 1 |
Books edited↙ | 1 |
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Cyril McNeile, MC (born Herman Cyril McNeile; 1888–1937) was a British soldier and author.[1] During the First World War he wrote short stories based on his experiences in the trenches with the Royal Engineers.[2] These were published in the Daily Mail under the pseudonym Sapper, the nickname of his regiment,[3] and were later published as collections through Hodder & Stoughton.[4] McNeile also wrote a series of articles titled The Making of an Officer, which appeared under the initials C. N., in five issues of The Times between 8 and 14 June 1916;[5][6] these were also subsequently collected together and published.[5] During the course of the war, McNeile wrote more than 80 collected and uncollected stories.[7]
McNeile continued writing after he left the army in 1919, although he stopped writing war stories and began to publish thrillers.[8] In 1920 he published Bulldog Drummond, whose eponymous hero became his best-known creation.[9] The character was based on McNeile himself, his idea of an English gentleman and his friend Gerard Fairlie.[8][a] McNeile wrote ten Bulldog Drummond novels, as well as three plays and a screenplay.[11][12]
McNeile interspersed his Drummond work with other novels and story collections, including two characters who appeared as protagonists in their own works, Jim Maitland and Ronald Standish.[13][14] McNeile was one of the most successful British popular authors of the inter-war period,[15] before his death in 1937 from throat cancer, which has been attributed to being caught in a gas attack in the war.[1]
Title[16] | Year of first publication | First edition publisher | Name or pseudonym used | Ref. |
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The Lieutenant and Others | 1915 | Hodder & Stoughton (London) | Sapper | [9] |
Sergeant Michael Cassidy, R.E. | 1915 | Hodder & Stoughton (London) | Sapper | [9] |
Men, Women, and Guns | 1916 | Hodder & Stoughton (London) | Sapper | [9] |
No Man's Land | 1917 | Hodder & Stoughton (London) | Sapper | [9] |
The Human Touch | 1918 | Hodder & Stoughton (London) | Sapper | [9] |
The Man in Ratcatcher, and other stories | 1921 | Hodder & Stoughton (London) | McNeile | [17] |
The Dinner Club | 1923 | Hodder & Stoughton (London) | McNeile | [17] |
Out of the Blue | 1925 | Hodder & Stoughton (London) | Sapper | [17] |
Jim Brent | 1926 | Hodder & Stoughton (London) | Sapper | [18] |
Word of Honour | 1926 | Hodder & Stoughton (London) | Sapper | [17] |
Shorty Bill | 1927 | Hodder & Stoughton (London) | Sapper | [18] |
The Saving Clause | 1927 | Hodder & Stoughton (London) | Sapper | [17] |
When Carruthers Laughed | 1927 | George H. Doran Company (New York) | McNeile | [17][b] |
John Walters | 1927 | Hodder & Stoughton (London) | Sapper | [18] |
Sapper's War Stories | 1930 | Hodder & Stoughton (London) | Sapper | [4] |
The Finger of Fate | 1930 | Hodder & Stoughton (London) | Sapper | [17] |
Ronald Standish | 1933 | Hodder & Stoughton (London) | Sapper | [20] |
51 Stories | 1934 | Hodder & Stoughton (London) | Sapper | [17] |
Ask For Ronald Standish | 1936 | Hodder & Stoughton (London) | Sapper | [20] |
The Best Short Stories | 1984 | Littlehampton Book Services (Littlehampton) | Sapper | [17] |
Title[16] | Year of first publication | First edition publisher | Name or pseudonym used | Ref. |
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Mufti | 1919 | Hodder & Stoughton (London) | McNeile | [8] |
Bull-Dog Drummond | 1920 | Hodder & Stoughton (London) | McNeile | [8] |
The Black Gang | 1922 | Hodder & Stoughton (London) | McNeile | [21] |
Jim Maitland | 1923 | Hodder & Stoughton (London) | McNeile | [22] |
The Third Round | 1924 | Hodder & Stoughton (London) | McNeile | [22] |
The Final Count | 1926 | Hodder & Stoughton (London) | Sapper | [22] |
The Female of the Species | 1928 | Hodder & Stoughton (London) | Sapper | [22] |
Temple Tower | 1929 | Hodder & Stoughton (London) | Sapper | [22] |
Tiny Carteret | 1930 | Hodder & Stoughton (London) | Sapper | [22] |
The Island of Terror | 1931 | Hodder & Stoughton (London) | Sapper | [22] |
The Return of Bull-Dog Drummond | 1932 | Hodder & Stoughton (London) | Sapper | [22] |
Knock-Out | 1933 | Hodder & Stoughton (London) | Sapper | [20] |
Bull-Dog Drummond at Bay | 1935 | Hodder & Stoughton (London) | Sapper | [20] |
Challenge | 1937 | Hodder & Stoughton (London) | Sapper | [20] |
Bulldog Drummond—His Four Rounds with Carl Peterson | 1967 | Hodder & Stoughton (London) | Sapper | [22][c] |
Title | Year of first publication | First edition publisher | Category | Name or pseudonym used | Notes | Ref. |
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The Making of an Officer | 1916 | Hodder & Stoughton (London) | Newspaper articles | C. N. | Collection of articles first published in The Times | [5] |
Bulldog Drummond: A Play in Four Acts | 1921 | Samuel French Ltd (London) | Play | Sapper | Co-published with Gerald du Maurier | [19] |
Bulldog Drummond | 1929 | Unpublished | Screenplay | Sapper | Writing credit; based on the 1921 play of the same name | [24][25] |
The Way Out | 1930 | Unpublished | Play | Sapper | Staged in January 1930 | [11] |
The Best of O. Henry | 1930 | Hodder & Stoughton (London) | Short story collection | McNeile, as editor | Collection of stories by O. Henry | [26] |
Bulldog Jack | 1935 | Unpublished | Screenplay | McNeile | With Gerard Fairlie, J.O.C. Orton and others; written for Gaumont British | [27] |
Bulldog Drummond Hits Out | 1937 | Unpublished | Play | McNeile | Staged in 1937 | [11] |
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