Complete Mystery War of H. C. McNeile

Commonly known as Cyril McNeile and publishing under the name H. C. McNeile or the pseudonym Sapper, was a British soldier and author. Drawing on his experiences in the trenches during the First World War. As serving officers in the British Army were not permitted to publish under their own names, he was given the pen name "Sapper" by Lord Northcliffe, the owner of the Daily Mail; the nickname was based on that of his corps, the Royal Engineers.

Contents

Bulldog Drummond (1920)

The Man in Ratcatcher and Other Stories (1921)

No Man's Land (1917)

Men, Women and Guns (1916)

Mufti (1919)


Mufti (1919)

From Poperinghe in May 1918 to London on sick leave, Derek Vane ponders the meaning of the War.


No Man's Land (1917)

During the first few days of November 1914 Messines was lost--in silence; during the first few days of June 1917 Messines was regained--and the noise of its capture was heard in London. And during the two and a half years between these two events the game over the water has been going on.