The death of Professor Goodman is officially recorded as a tragic accident, but at the inquest, no mention is made of his latest discovery - a miraculous new formula for manufacturing flawless diamonds at negligible cost, which strikes Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond as rather strange. His suspicions are further aroused when he spots a member of the Metropolitan Diamond Syndicate at the inquest. Gradually, he untangles a sinister plot of greed and murder, which climaxes in a dramatic motorboat chase at Cowes and brings him face to face with his archenemy.
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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 1907-19, being awarded the Military Cross during World War 1.
He started writing in France, adopting a 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 (1923), featuring a footloose English sahib in foreign lands.
Sapper published nearly thirty books in total, and a vast public mourned his death when he died in 1937, at the early age of forty-eight. So popular was his 'Bulldog Drummond' series that his friend, the late Gerard Fairlie, wrote several Bulldog Drummond stories after his death under the same pen name, which had by then become synonymous with fast-paced, intelligent thrillers and complex, vibrant characters.
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Professor Goodman, Sir Raymond, Professor Scheidstrun, Captain Drummond, Royal Society, Carl Peterson, Hugh Drummond, Brook Street, Metropolitan Diamond Syndicate, Ted Jerningham, Algy Longworth, Toby Sinclair, Palace Hotel, Miss Goodman, Edward Blackton, New Forest, Southampton Water, James's Square, Comte de Guy, Frau Scheidstrun, Austin Friars, Great Scott, Mein Gott, Good Lord, Dent du Midi Browse Sample Pages:
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Professor Goodman, Sir Raymond, Professor Scheidstrun, Captain Drummond, Royal Society, Carl Peterson, Hugh Drummond, Brook Street, Metropolitan Diamond Syndicate, Ted Jerningham, Algy Longworth, Toby Sinclair, Palace Hotel, Miss Goodman, Edward Blackton, New Forest, Southampton Water, James's Square, Comte de Guy, Frau Scheidstrun, Austin Friars, Great Scott, Mein Gott, Good Lord, Dent du Midi Browse Sample Pages:
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