List of works by H. C. McNeile

Cyril McNeile, MC (born Herman Cyril McNeile; 1888–1937) was a British soldier and author.^[1] During the First World War he wrote short stories based on his experiences in the trenches with the Royal Engineers.^[2] These were published in the Daily Mail under the pseudonym Sapper, the nickname of his regiment,^[3] and were later published as collections through Hodder & Stoughton.^[4] McNeile also wrote a series of articles titled The Making of an Officer, which appeared under the initials C. N., in five issues of The Times between 8 and 14 June 1916;^[5][6] these were also subsequently collected together and published.^[5] During the course of the war, McNeile wrote more than 80 collected and uncollected stories.^[7]

H. C. McNeile
bibliography

Novels↙	15
Articles↙	1
Stories↙	20
Collections↙	1
Plays↙	3
Scripts↙	1
Books edited↙	1
References and footnotes

McNeile continued writing after he left the army in 1919, although he stopped writing war stories and began to publish thrillers.^[8] In 1920 he published Bulldog Drummond, whose eponymous hero became his best-known creation.^[9] The character was based on McNeile himself, his idea of an English gentleman and his friend Gerard Fairlie.^[8][a] McNeile wrote ten Bulldog Drummond novels, as well as three plays and a screenplay.^[11][12]

McNeile interspersed his Drummond work with other novels and story collections, including two characters who appeared as protagonists in their own works, Jim Maitland and Ronald Standish.^[13][14] McNeile was one of the most successful British popular authors of the inter-war period,^[15] before his death in 1937 from throat cancer, which has been attributed to being caught in a gas attack in the war.^[1]

Short story collections

US cover of No Man's Land, published in 1917

The short story collections of H. C. McNeile

Title[16]	Year of first publication	First edition publisher	Name or pseudonym used	Ref.
The Lieutenant and Others	1915	Hodder & Stoughton (London)	Sapper	[9]
Sergeant Michael Cassidy, R.E.	1915	Hodder & Stoughton (London)	Sapper	[9]
Men, Women, and Guns	1916	Hodder & Stoughton (London)	Sapper	[9]
No Man's Land	1917	Hodder & Stoughton (London)	Sapper	[9]
The Human Touch	1918	Hodder & Stoughton (London)	Sapper	[9]
The Man in Ratcatcher, and other stories	1921	Hodder & Stoughton (London)	McNeile	[17]
The Dinner Club	1923	Hodder & Stoughton (London)	McNeile	[17]
Out of the Blue	1925	Hodder & Stoughton (London)	Sapper	[17]
Jim Brent	1926	Hodder & Stoughton (London)	Sapper	[18]
Word of Honour	1926	Hodder & Stoughton (London)	Sapper	[17]
Shorty Bill	1927	Hodder & Stoughton (London)	Sapper	[18]
The Saving Clause	1927	Hodder & Stoughton (London)	Sapper	[17]
When Carruthers Laughed	1927	George H. Doran Company (New York)	McNeile	[17][b]
John Walters	1927	Hodder & Stoughton (London)	Sapper	[18]
Sapper's War Stories	1930	Hodder & Stoughton (London)	Sapper	[4]
The Finger of Fate	1930	Hodder & Stoughton (London)	Sapper	[17]
Ronald Standish	1933	Hodder & Stoughton (London)	Sapper	[20]
51 Stories	1934	Hodder & Stoughton (London)	Sapper	[17]
Ask For Ronald Standish	1936	Hodder & Stoughton (London)	Sapper	[20]
The Best Short Stories	1984	Littlehampton Book Services (Littlehampton)	Sapper	[17]

Novels

First edition cover of Bulldog Drummond

The novels of H. C. McNeile

Title[16]	Year of first publication	First edition publisher	Name or pseudonym used	Ref.
Mufti	1919	Hodder & Stoughton (London)	McNeile	[8]
Bull-Dog Drummond	1920	Hodder & Stoughton (London)	McNeile	[8]
The Black Gang	1922	Hodder & Stoughton (London)	McNeile	[21]
Jim Maitland	1923	Hodder & Stoughton (London)	McNeile	[22]
The Third Round	1924	Hodder & Stoughton (London)	McNeile	[22]
The Final Count	1926	Hodder & Stoughton (London)	Sapper	[22]
The Female of the Species	1928	Hodder & Stoughton (London)	Sapper	[22]
Temple Tower	1929	Hodder & Stoughton (London)	Sapper	[22]
Tiny Carteret	1930	Hodder & Stoughton (London)	Sapper	[22]
The Island of Terror	1931	Hodder & Stoughton (London)	Sapper	[22]
The Return of Bull-Dog Drummond	1932	Hodder & Stoughton (London)	Sapper	[22]
Knock-Out (US title Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back)	1933	Hodder & Stoughton (London)	Sapper	[20]
Bull-Dog Drummond at Bay	1935	Hodder & Stoughton (London)	Sapper	[20]
Challenge	1937	Hodder & Stoughton (London)	Sapper	[20]
Bulldog Drummond—His Four Rounds with Carl Peterson	1967	Hodder & Stoughton (London)	Sapper	[22][c]

Others

Poster for the 1922 film Bulldog Drummond, based on McNeile's play of the same name

Other works of H. C. McNeile

Title	Year of first publication	First edition publisher	Category	Name or pseudonym used	Notes	Ref.
The Making of an Officer	1916	Hodder & Stoughton (London)	Newspaper articles	C. N.	Collection of articles first published in The Times	[5]
Bulldog Drummond: A Play in Four Acts	1921	Samuel French Ltd (London)	Play	Sapper	Co-published with Gerald du Maurier	[19]
Bulldog Drummond	1929	Unpublished	Screenplay	Sapper	Writing credit; based on the 1921 play of the same name	[24][25]
The Way Out	1930	Unpublished	Play	Sapper	Staged in January 1930	[11]
The Best of O. Henry	1930	Hodder & Stoughton (London)	Short story collection	McNeile, as editor	Collection of stories by O. Henry	[26]
Bulldog Jack	1935	Unpublished	Screenplay	McNeile	With Gerard Fairlie, J.O.C. Orton and others; written for Gaumont British	[27]
Bulldog Drummond Hits Out	1937	Unpublished	Play	McNeile	Staged in 1937	[11]