„Sapper“
Subtitle: The Best Short Stories
By: selected and introduced by Jack Adrian.
Contributors: Adrian, Jack.
Series: Classic Thrillers
Publisher: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd; Dent
Published: 1986
Place of publication: London; Melbourne
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780460024563
Copyright date: 1920, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1937
First sentence: For over a decade, from the 1920s through the early 1930s, Lieutenant-Colonel Herman Cyril McNeile—‚Sapper‘ to his millions of readers—was the acknowledged master of the popular short story: a piece of fiction roughly four to seven thousand words in length, of no particular literary merit or significance (at least in academic terms), but told in a brisk and entertaining manner and containing a goodish helping of mystery, romance, adventure, horror or suspense (or a heady brew-up of all those ingredients) with a beginning, a middle and an ending with a sting in it—the sharper the better, and preferably in the last couple of lines.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 223-224.
Table of contents: label: Introduction by Jack Adrian
title: vii; label: The Hidden Witness
title: 1; label: Mrs Peter Skeffington's Revenge
title: 17; label: The House by the Headland
title: 32; label: Mark Danver's Sin
title: 47; label: Out of the Blue
title: 62; label: A Hopeless Case
title: 74; label: The Man with his Hand in his Pocket
title: 88; label: The Other Side of the Wall
title: 104; label: The Old Dining-Room
title: 119; label: The Exploits of Bulldog Drummond; label: Lonely Inn
title: 134; label: The Mystery Tour
title: 152; label: The Oriental Mind
title: 169; label: Wheels Within Wheels
title: 186; label: Thirteen Lead Soldiers
title: 205; label: Select Bibliography/Acknowledgements
title: 223