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H.C. McNeile's writing career lasted from 1915 until his death in 1937. McNeile was a First World War British army officer with the Royal Engineers, who wrote several short stories while serving on the Western Front; these were published in the Daily Mail under the pseudonym "Sapper", the nickname of his regiment. After the war he turned away from war writing and began to publish thrillers. In 1920 he wrote the novel Bulldog Drummond, whose eponymous hero became his best-known character; he went on to write ten Drummond novels in total as well as three plays and a screenplay. McNeile interspersed his Drummond stories with other novels and story collections, including two characters who appeared as protagonists in their own works, Jim Maitland and Ronald Standish. (Full list...)