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]

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]