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List of works by H. C. McNeile

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Cyril McNeile, MC (born Herman Cyril McNeile; 1888–1937) was a British soldier and author.{{sfn|Green|2004}} During the First World War he wrote short stories based on his experiences in the trenches with the Royal Engineers.{{sfn|Treadwell|2001|p=111}} These were published in the Daily Mail under the pseudonym Sapper, the nickname of his regiment,{{sfn|Bourn|1990|p=25}} and were later published as collections through Hodder & Stoughton.{{sfn|Jaillant|2011|p=140}} 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;{{sfn|Jaillant|2011|p=150}} these were also subsequently collected together and published.{{sfn|Jaillant|2011|p=150}} During the course of the war, McNeile wrote more than 80 collected and uncollected stories.{{sfn|Bertens|1990|p=51}}

McNeile continued writing after he left the army in 1919, although he stopped writing war stories and began to publish thrillers.{{sfn|DelFattore|1988|p=223}} In 1920 he published Bulldog Drummond, whose eponymous hero became his best-known creation.{{sfn|Jaillant|2011|p=137}} The character was based on McNeile himself, his idea of an English gentleman and his friend Gerard Fairlie.{{sfn|DelFattore|1988|p=223}}{{efn|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".{{sfn|Bourn|1990|p=31}}}} McNeile wrote ten Bulldog Drummond novels, as well as three plays and a screenplay.{{sfn|DelFattore|1988|p=226}}{{sfn|Neuburg|1983|p=41}}

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.{{sfn|Treadwell|2001|p=152}}{{sfn|Usborne|1983|p=178}} McNeile was one of the most successful British popular authors of the inter-war period, before his death in 1937 from throat cancer, which has been attributed to being caught in a gas attack in the war.{{sfn|Green|2004}}

Short story collections

File:No Man's Land - 1ed ed cover.jpg

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|+ The short story collections of H. C. McNeile

scope="col" style="width: 25em;" | Title{{sfn|DelFattore|1988|pp=221–222}}

! scope="col" style="width: 8em;" | Year of first publication

! scope="col" style="width: 20em;" | First edition publisher

! scope="col" style="width: 10em;" | Name or pseudonym used

! scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{Tooltip|Ref.|Reference}}

scope="row" | {{sort|Lieutenant and Others|The Lieutenant and Others}}

| {{sort|1915.1|1915}}

| Hodder & Stoughton (London)

| Sapper

|style="text-align: center;" | {{sfn|Jaillant|2011|p=137}}

scope="row" | Sergeant Michael Cassidy, R.E.

| {{sort|1915.2|1915}}

| Hodder & Stoughton (London)

| Sapper

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|Jaillant|2011|p=137}}

scope="row" | Men, Women, and Guns

| {{sort|1916|1916}}

| Hodder & Stoughton (London)

| Sapper

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|Jaillant|2011|p=137}}

scope="row" | No Man's Land

| {{sort|1917|1917}}

| Hodder & Stoughton (London)

| Sapper

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|Jaillant|2011|p=137}}

scope="row" | {{sort|Human Touch|The Human Touch}}

| {{sort|1918|1918}}

| Hodder & Stoughton (London)

| Sapper

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|Jaillant|2011|p=137}}

scope="row" | {{sort|Man in Ratcatcher, and other stories|The Man in Ratcatcher, and other stories}}

| {{sort|1921|1921}}

| Hodder & Stoughton (London)

| McNeile

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|Treadwell|2001|p=194}}

scope="row" | {{sort|Dinner Club|The Dinner Club}}

| {{sort|1923|1923}}

| Hodder & Stoughton (London)

| McNeile

|style="text-align: center;" | {{sfn|Treadwell|2001|p=194}}

scope="row" | Out of the Blue

| {{sort|1925|1925}}

| Hodder & Stoughton (London)

| Sapper

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|Treadwell|2001|p=194}}

scope="row" | Jim Brent

| {{sort|1926.1|1926}}

| Hodder & Stoughton (London)

| Sapper

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|Jaillant|2011|p=145}}

scope="row" | Word of Honour

| {{sort|1926.2|1926}}

| Hodder & Stoughton (London)

| Sapper

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|Treadwell|2001|p=194}}

scope="row" | Shorty Bill

| {{sort|1926.3|1927}}

| Hodder & Stoughton (London)

| Sapper

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|Jaillant|2011|p=145}}

scope="row" |{{sort|Saving Clause|The Saving Clause}}

| {{sort|1927.1|1927}}

| Hodder & Stoughton (London)

| Sapper

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|Treadwell|2001|p=194}}

scope="row" | When Carruthers Laughed

| {{sort|1927.2|1927}}

| George H. Doran Company (New York)

| McNeile

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|Treadwell|2001|p=194}}{{efn|Published in the UK in 1934 by Hodder & Stoughton under the pseudonym Sapper.{{sfn|DelFattore|1988|p=221}}}}

scope="row" | John Walters

| {{sort|1927.3|1927}}

| Hodder & Stoughton (London)

| Sapper

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|Jaillant|2011|p=145}}

scope="row" | Sapper's War Stories

| {{sort|1930.1|1930}}

| Hodder & Stoughton (London)

| Sapper

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|Jaillant|2011|p=140}}

scope="row" | {{sort|Finger of Fate|The Finger of Fate}}

| {{sort|1930.2|1930}}

| Hodder & Stoughton (London)

| Sapper

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|Treadwell|2001|p=194}}

scope="row" | Ronald Standish

| {{sort|1933|1933}}

| Hodder & Stoughton (London)

| Sapper

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|DelFattore|1988|p=225}}

scope="row" | 51 Stories

| {{sort|1934|1934}}

| Hodder & Stoughton (London)

| Sapper

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|Treadwell|2001|p=194}}

scope="row" | Ask For Ronald Standish

| {{sort|1936|1936}}

| Hodder & Stoughton (London)

| Sapper

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|DelFattore|1988|p=225}}

scope="row" | {{sort|Best Short Stories|The Best Short Stories}}

| {{sort|1984|1984}}

| Littlehampton Book Services (Littlehampton)

| Sapper

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|Treadwell|2001|p=194}}

Novels

File:Bulldog Drummond 1st edition cover, 1920.jpg]]

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|+ The novels of H. C. McNeile

scope="col" style="width: 25em;" | Title{{sfn|DelFattore|1988|pp=221–222}}

! scope="col" style="width: 8em;" | Year of first publication

! scope="col" style="width: 20em;" | First edition publisher

! scope="col" style="width: 10em;" | Name or pseudonym used

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scope="row" | Mufti

| {{sort|1919|1919}}

| Hodder & Stoughton (London)

| McNeile

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|DelFattore|1988|p=223}}

scope="row" | Bull-Dog Drummond

| {{sort|1920|1920}}

| Hodder & Stoughton (London)

| McNeile

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|DelFattore|1988|p=223}}

scope="row" | {{sort|Black Gang|The Black Gang}}

| {{sort|1922|1922}}

| Hodder & Stoughton (London)

| McNeile

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|DelFattore|1988|p=224}}

scope="row" | Jim Maitland

| {{sort|1923|1923}}

| Hodder & Stoughton (London)

| McNeile

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|Treadwell|2001|p=193}}

scope="row" | {{sort|Third Round|The Third Round}}

| {{sort|1924|1924}}

| Hodder & Stoughton (London)

| McNeile

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|Treadwell|2001|p=193}}

scope="row" | {{sort|Final Count|The Final Count}}

| {{sort|1926|1926}}

| Hodder & Stoughton (London)

| Sapper

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|Treadwell|2001|p=193}}

scope="row" | {{sort|Female of the Species|The Female of the Species}}

| {{sort|1928|1928}}

| Hodder & Stoughton (London)

| Sapper

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|Treadwell|2001|p=193}}

scope="row" | Temple Tower

| {{sort|1929|1929}}

| Hodder & Stoughton (London)

| Sapper

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|Treadwell|2001|p=193}}

scope="row" | Tiny Carteret

| {{sort|1930|1930}}

| Hodder & Stoughton (London)

| Sapper

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|Treadwell|2001|p=193}}

scope="row" | {{sort|Island of Terror|The Island of Terror}}

| {{sort|1931|1931}}

| Hodder & Stoughton (London)

| Sapper

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|Treadwell|2001|p=193}}

scope="row" | {{sort|Return of Bull-Dog Drummond|The Return of Bull-Dog Drummond}}

| {{sort|1932|1932}}

| Hodder & Stoughton (London)

| Sapper

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|Treadwell|2001|p=193}}

scope="row" | Knock-Out

| {{sort|1933|1933}}

| Hodder & Stoughton (London)

| Sapper

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|DelFattore|1988|p=225}}

scope="row" | Bull-Dog Drummond at Bay

| {{sort|1935|1935}}

| Hodder & Stoughton (London)

| Sapper

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|DelFattore|1988|p=225}}

scope="row" | Challenge

| {{sort|1937|1937}}

| Hodder & Stoughton (London)

| Sapper

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|DelFattore|1988|p=225}}

scope="row" | Bulldog Drummond—His Four Rounds with Carl Peterson

| {{sort|1967|1967}}

| Hodder & Stoughton (London)

| Sapper

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|Treadwell|2001|p=193}}{{efn|Omnibus edition, containing Bull-Dog Drummond, The Black Gang, The Third Round and The Final Count.{{sfn|Treadwell|2001|pp=193–194}}}}

Others

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|+ Other works of H. C. McNeile

scope="col" | Title

! scope="col" | Year of first publication

! scope="col" | First edition publisher

! scope="col" | Category

! scope="col" | Name or pseudonym used

! scope="col" | Notes

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scope="row" | {{sort|Making of an Officer|The Making of an Officer}}

| {{sort|1916|1916}}

| Hodder & Stoughton (London)

| Newspaper articles

| C. N.

| Collection of articles first published in The Times

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|Jaillant|2011|p=150}}

scope="row" | Bulldog Drummond: A Play in Four Acts

| {{sort|1921|1921}}

| Samuel French Ltd (London)

| Play

| Sapper

| Co-published with Gerald du Maurier

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|DelFattore|1988|p=221}}

scope="row" | Bulldog Drummond

| {{sort|1929|1929}}

| Unpublished

| Screenplay

| Sapper

| Writing credit; based on the 1921 play of the same name

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|Treadwell|2001|p=22}}

scope="row" | {{sort|Way Out|The Way Out}}

| {{sort|1930.1|1930}}

| Unpublished

| Play

| Sapper

| Staged in January 1930

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|DelFattore|1988|p=226}}

scope="row" | {{sort|Best of O. Henry|The Best of O. Henry}}

| {{sort|1930.2|1930}}

| Hodder & Stoughton (London)

| Short story collection

| McNeile, as editor

| Collection of stories by O. Henry

| style="text-align: center;" |

scope="row" | Bulldog Jack

| {{sort|1935|1935}}

| Unpublished

| Screenplay

| McNeile

| With Gerard Fairlie, J.O.C. Orton and others; written for Gaumont British

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|DelFattore|1988|p=222}}

scope="row" | Bulldog Drummond Hits Out

| {{sort|1937|1937}}

| Unpublished

| Play

| McNeile

| Staged in 1937

| style="text-align: center;" |{{sfn|DelFattore|1988|p=226}}

Notes and references

Notes

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References

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{{cite news|author=C. N.|title=The Making of an Officer|newspaper=The Times|date=14 June 1916|location=London|page=9}}

{{cite news|last=Fowler|first=Christopher|title=Invisibile Ink: No 117 – Sexton Blake and Bulldog Drummond|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/invisibile-ink-no-117--sexton-blake-and-bulldog-drummond-7605943.html|newspaper=The Independent|page=66|date=1 April 2012|author-link=Christopher Fowler|location=London}}

{{cite web|title=Credits: Bulldog Drummond|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/28066?view=credit|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130423191514/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/28066?view=credit|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 April 2013|work=Film & TV Database|publisher=British Film Institute|access-date=1 February 2013}}

{{cite web|title=The Best of O. Henry. One hundred of his stories chosen by Sapper.|url=http://catalogue.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=detailsTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=BLL01001654987&indx=17&recIds=BLL01001654987&recIdxs=6&elementId=&renderMode=poppedOut&displayMode=full&dscnt=0&fctN=facet_creator&vl(174399379UI0)=creator&frbrVersion=6&scp.scps=scope%3A(BLCONTENT)&fctV=Sapper%2C%2B1888-1937.&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1356939343045&srt=lso01&mode=Basic&gathStatTab=true&tb=t&vl(freeText0)=sapper&vid=BLVU1&ublrpp=10&frbg=&dum=true|publisher=British Library|access-date=31 December 2012}}

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Bibliography

=Books=

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  • {{cite book|last=Bertens|first=Hans|contribution= A Society of Murderers Run on Sound Conservative Lines: The Life and Times of Sapper's Bulldog Drummond|editor-first=Clive|editor-last=Bloom|title=Twentieth-Century Suspense: The Thriller Comes of Age|year=1990|publisher=The Macmillan Press|location=Basingstoke|isbn=978-0-333-47592-8}}
  • {{cite book|last=DelFattore|first=Joan|contribution=Herman Cyril McNeile (Sapper)|editor1-first=Bernard|editor1-last=Benstock |editor1-link=Bernard Benstock|editor2-first=Thomas|editor2-last=Staley|title=British Mystery Writers, 1920–1939|year=1988|publisher=Gale Research|location=Detroit|isbn=978-0-7876-3072-0}}
  • {{cite book|last=Neuburg|first=Victor E.|author-link=Victor E. Neuburg|title=The Popular Press Companion to Popular Literature|url=https://archive.org/details/popularpresscomp00neub|url-access=registration|year=1983|publisher=Bowling Green State University Popular Press|location=Bowling Green|isbn=978-0-87972-233-3}}
  • {{cite book|last=Usborne|first=Richard|author-link=Richard Usborne|title=Clubland Heroes: A Nostalgic Study of the Recurrent Characters in the Romantic Fiction of Dornford Yates, John Buchan and "Sapper"|year=1983|publisher=Hutchinson|location=London|isbn=978-0-09-152821-8}}
  • {{cite book|last=Treadwell|first=Lawrence P.|title=The Bulldog Drummond Encyclopedia|year=2001|publisher=McFarland & Company|location=Jefferson|isbn=978-0-7864-0769-9}}

=Journals=

  • {{cite magazine|last=Bourn|first=J. D.|title=Sapper: Creator of Bull-Dog Drummond|magazine=The Book and Magazine Collector|date=October 1990|issue=79|id=UPC 977-0-9528-6001-4}}
  • {{cite ODNB|last=Green|first=Jonathon|title=McNeile, (Herman) Cyril [pseud. Sapper]|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/34810|year=2004}}
  • {{cite journal|last=Jaillant|first=Lise|title=Sapper, Hodder & Stoughton, and the Popular Literature of the Great War|journal=Book History|year=2011|volume=14|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|issn=1098-7371}}

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External links

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  • {{OL_author |OL2827465A |H.C. McNeile}}
  • {{Gutenberg author |id=26827 |name=H.C. McNeile}}
  • {{FadedPage|id=McNeile, Herman Cyril|name=Herman Cyril McNeile|author=yes}}
  • {{Internet Archive author |sname=Herman Cyril McNeile |dname=H. C. McNeile |birth=1888 |death=1937}}
  • {{Librivox author |id=1858 |title=H. C. McNeile}}
  • [http://www.greatwardustjackets.co.uk/page42.html Images] of the original dust jackets on McNeile's books.
  • [http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?LinkID=mp50030 Portraits of McNeile] at the National Portrait Gallery, London.

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