The Female of the Species

Sapper

ISBN 10: 0755116763 / ISBN 13: 9780755116768

Verlag: House of Stratus, 2009

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Inhaltsangabe:

Bulldog Drummond has slain his archenemy, Carl Peterson, but Peterson’s mistress lives on and is intent on revenge. Drummond’s wife vanishes, followed by a series of vicious traps set by a malicious adversary, which lead to a hair-raising chase across England, to a sinister house and a fantastic torture-chamber modelled on Stonehenge, with its legend of human sacrifice.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

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.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Female of the Species
Verlag: House of Stratus
Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Good
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