List of works by H. C. McNeile


, MC was a British soldier and author. During the First World War he wrote short stories based on his experiences in the trenches with the Royal Engineers. These were published in the Daily Mail under the pseudonym Sapper, the nickname of his regiment, and were later published as collections through Hodder & Stoughton. 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; these were also subsequently collected together and published. During the course of the war, McNeile wrote more than 80 collected and uncollected stories.
McNeile continued writing after he left the army in 1919, although he stopped writing war stories and began to publish thrillers. In 1920 he published Bulldog Drummond, whose eponymous hero became his best-known creation. The character was based on McNeile himself, his idea of an English gentleman and his friend Gerard Fairlie. McNeile wrote ten Bulldog Drummond novels, as well as three plays and a screenplay.
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. McNeile was one of the most successful British popular authors of the inter-war period, before his death in 1937 from throat cancer, which has been attributed to being caught in a gas attack in the war.

Short story collections

TitleYear of first publicationFirst edition publisherName or pseudonym used
Hodder & Stoughton Sapper
Sergeant Michael Cassidy, R.E.Hodder & Stoughton Sapper
Men, Women, and GunsHodder & Stoughton Sapper
No Man's LandHodder & Stoughton Sapper
Hodder & Stoughton Sapper
Hodder & Stoughton McNeile
Hodder & Stoughton McNeile
Out of the BlueHodder & Stoughton Sapper
Jim BrentHodder & Stoughton Sapper
Word of HonourHodder & Stoughton Sapper
Shorty BillHodder & Stoughton Sapper
Hodder & Stoughton Sapper
When Carruthers LaughedGeorge H. Doran Company McNeile
John WaltersHodder & Stoughton Sapper
Sapper's War StoriesHodder & Stoughton Sapper
Hodder & Stoughton Sapper
Ronald StandishHodder & Stoughton Sapper
51 StoriesHodder & Stoughton Sapper
Ask For Ronald StandishHodder & Stoughton Sapper
Littlehampton Book Services Sapper

Novels

TitleYear of first publicationFirst edition publisherName or pseudonym used
MuftiHodder & Stoughton McNeile
Bull-Dog DrummondHodder & Stoughton McNeile
Hodder & Stoughton McNeile
Jim MaitlandHodder & Stoughton McNeile
Hodder & Stoughton McNeile
Hodder & Stoughton Sapper
Hodder & Stoughton Sapper
Temple TowerHodder & Stoughton Sapper
Tiny CarteretHodder & Stoughton Sapper
Hodder & Stoughton Sapper
Hodder & Stoughton Sapper
Knock-OutHodder & Stoughton Sapper
Bull-Dog Drummond at BayHodder & Stoughton Sapper
ChallengeHodder & Stoughton Sapper
Bulldog Drummond—His Four Rounds with Carl PetersonHodder & Stoughton Sapper

Others

TitleYear of first publicationFirst edition publisherCategoryName or pseudonym usedNotes
Hodder & Stoughton Newspaper articlesC. N.Collection of articles first published in The Times
Bulldog Drummond: A Play in Four ActsSamuel French Ltd PlaySapperCo-published with Gerald du Maurier
Bulldog DrummondUnpublishedScreenplaySapperWriting credit; based on the 1921 play of the same name
UnpublishedPlaySapperStaged in January 1930
Hodder & Stoughton Short story collectionMcNeile, as editorCollection of stories by O. Henry
Bulldog JackUnpublishedScreenplayMcNeileWith Gerard Fairlie, J.O.C. Orton and others; written for Gaumont British
Bulldog Drummond Hits OutUnpublishedPlayMcNeileStaged in 1937