The Third Round (Bulldog Drummond, Band 3) - Softcover

Sapper

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1842325604 ISBN 13: 9781842325605

Verlag: House of Stratus, 2001

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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 to 1919, being awarded the Military Cross during World War 1. McNeile started writing in France, adopting the 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, featuring a footloose English sahib in foreign lands. Sapper published nearly thirty books in total, and a vast public mourned his death in 1937, at the early age of forty-eight. There are several feature films of his work.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: House of Stratus
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1842325604
• ISBN 13: 9781842325605
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
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