Title: Bulldog Drummond at bay
First published: 1935
Description: Drummond had gone to the country seeking peace and quiet, but when on his first night a stone wrapped in a brown, blood-stained sheet of paper crashed through his window, the paper bearing the mysterious message, "Mary Jane. Urgent. GG Pont. As." Drummond was off on his most hair-raising adventure. He wasn't, however, really aware of what the mysterious message had involved him in until the next day, when a charming girl, whom he had never before seen, tried to put a sleeping potion in his tea, and he first learned of the existence of that amazing organization, the Key Club.

At first, curiosity was Drummond's sole motive, but when his pet bulldog was shot through the head and the body of a murdered man disappeared from his living. room, Drummond threw himself and all of his resources into the investigation. He soon found that he was up against an international ring of ruthless killers organized to steal and trade in the armament secrets of the nations of the world and that the peace of the world hung in the balance, dependent upon his success or failure. 

Bulldog Drummond series #9
Subjects: Bulldog Drummond (Fictitious character), Fiction, adventure, suspense, Bulldog Drummond (fictional character), Sapper, adventurer, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Private investigators, fiction
Places: England
People: Bulldog Drummond (fictional character), Irma Peterson (fictional character), Carl Peterson (fictional character)
Time periods: Around 1930, 1925ish