The Female Of The Species (Bulldog Drummond)
Brand: House of Stratus
Categories: Books, Literature & Fiction, Action & Adventure


House of Stratus

Dimensions: 5.31 x 0.59 x 8.07 inches
ISBN-13: 978-0755116768
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0755116763
Print length: 258 pages
Publication date: February 18, 2009
subtitle: Paperback – February 18, 2009
author: Visit Amazon's Sapper Page search results Sapper
review: Editorial Reviews About the Author Sapper is the pen name of Herman Cyril McNeile, born in 1888 at the Naval Prison in Bodmin, Cornwall, where his father was governor. He served in the Royal Engineers (popularly known as sappers) from 1907 to 1919, being awarded the Military Cross during World War 1. McNeile started writing in France, adopting the pen name because serving officers were not allowed to write under their own names. When his first stories, about life in the trenches, were published in 1915, they were an enormous success. But it was his first thriller, Bulldog Drummond (1920) that launched him as one of the most popular novelists of his generation. It had several amazingly successful sequels, including The Black Gang, The Third Round , and The Final Count . Another great success was Jim Maitland , featuring a footloose English sahib in foreign lands. Sapper published nearly thirty books in total, and a vast public mourned his death in 1937, at the early age of forty-eight. There are several feature films of his work.