Array Sapper - The Complete Works of H. C. McNeile Sapper

H. C. McNeile / Sapper

Novels, War Stories, Detective Stories & Tales from the Army

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Novels: Novels: Table of Content

Mufti Mufti Table of Content Prologue I II CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV MELTON HOUSE, OFFHAM, NEAR LEWES. CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVIII EPILOGUE

Bulldog Drummond Bulldog Drummond Table of Content PROLOGUE CHAPTER I IN WHICH HE TAKES TEA AT THE CARLTON AND IS SURPRISED CHAPTER II IN WHICH HE JOURNEYS TO GODALMING AND THE GAME BEGINS CHAPTER III IN WHICH THINGS HAPPEN IN HALF MOON STREET CHAPTER IV IN WHICH HE SPENDS A QUIET NIGHT AT THE ELMS CHAPTER V IN WHICH THERE IS TROUBLE AT GORING CHAPTER VI IN WHICH A VERY OLD GAME TAKES PLACE ON THE HOG'S BACK CHAPTER VII IN WHICH HE SPENDS AN HOUR OR TWO ON A ROOF CHAPTER VIII IN WHICH HE GOES TO PARIS FOR A NIGHT CHAPTER IX IN WHICH HE HAS A NEAR SHAVE CHAPTER X IN WHICH THE HUN NATION DECREASES BY ONE CHAPTER XI IN WHICH LAKINGTON PLAYS HIS LAST "COUP" CHAPTER XII IN WHICH THE LAST ROUND TAKES PLACE EPILOGUE

The Black Gang The Black Gang Table of Content I. IN WHICH THINGS HAPPEN NEAR BARKING CREEK II. IN WHICH SCOTLAND YARD SITS UP AND TAKES NOTICE III. IN WHICH HUGH DRUMMOND COMPOSES A LETTER IV. IN WHICH COUNT ZADOWA GETS A SHOCK V. IN WHICH CHARLES LATTER, M.P., GOES MAD VI. IN WHICH AN EFFUSION IS SENT TO THE NEWSPAPERS VII. IN WHICH A BOMB BURSTS AT UNPLEASANTLY CLOSE QUARTERS VIII. IN WHICH THE BAG OF NUTS IS FOUND BY ACCIDENT IX. IN WHICH THERE IS A STORMY SUPPER PARTY AT THE RITZ X. IN WHICH HUGH DRUMMOND MAKES A DISCOVERY XI. IN WHICH HUGH DRUMMOND AND THE REVEREND THEODOSIUS LONGMOOR TAKE LUNCH TOGETHER XII. IN WHICH COUNT ZADOWA IS INTRODUCED TO ALICE IN WONDERLAND XIII. IN WHICH HUGH DRUMMOND AND THE REVEREND THEODOSIUS HAVE A LITTLE CHAT XIV. IN WHICH A ROLLS-ROYCE RUNS AMOK XV. IN WHICH HUGH DRUMMOND ARRIVES AT MAYBRICK HALL XVI. IN WHICH THINGS HAPPEN AT MAYBRICK HALL XVII. IN WHICH A MURDERER IS MURDERED AT MAYBRICK HALL XVIII. IN WHICH THE HOME SECRETARY IS TAUGHT THE FOX-TROT

Jim Maitland Jim Maitland Table of Content FOREWORD I. — RAYMOND BLAIR—DRUNKARD II. — THE KILLING OF BARON STOCKMAR III. — A GAME OF BLUFF IV. — COLETTE V. — THE FIGHT AT BULL MINE CREEK VI. — PETE CORNISH'S REVENGE VII. — THE MADMAN AT CORN REEF LIGHTHOUSE VIII. — THE SEVEN MISSIONARIES IX. — THE ROTTENNESS OF LADY HOUNSLOW X. — THE POOL OF THE SACRED CROCODILE XI. — AN EXPERIMENT IN ELECTRICITY XII. — MOLLY'S AUNT AT ANGMERING

The Third Round The Third Round Table of Content I. — IN WHICH THE METROPOLITAN DIAMOND SYNDICATE HOLDS CONVERSE WITH MR EDWARD BLACKTON II. — IN WHICH PROFESSOR GOODMAN REALISES THAT THERE ARE MORE THINGS IN LIFE THAN CHEMISTRY III. — IN WHICH STRANGE THINGS HAPPEN IN PROFESSOR GOODMAN'S LABORATORY IV. — IN WHICH MR WILLIAM ROBINSON ARRIVES AT HIS COUNTRY SEAT V. — IN WHICH MR WILLIAM ROBINSON LOSES HIS SELF- CONTROL VI. — IN WHICH HUGH DRUMMOND LOSES HIS SELF- CONTROL. VII. — IN WHICH DRUMMOND TAKES A TELEPHONE CALL AND REGRETS IT VIII. — IN WHICH DRUMMOND PLAYS A LITTLE GAME OF TRAINS IX. — IN WHICH PROFESSOR GOODMAN HAS A TRYING TIME X. — IN WHICH DRUMMOND GOES ON BOARD THE S.Y. GADFLY XI. — IN WHICH DRUMMOND LEAVES THE S.Y. GADFLY XII. — IN WHICH HE SAMPLES MR BLACKTON'S NAPOLEON BRANDY XIII. — IN WHICH DRUMMOND RECEIVES AN ADDITION TO HIS LIBRARY

The Final Count

The Female of the Species

Temple Tower

Tiny Carteret

The Island of Terror

The Return of Bulldog Drummond

Knock-Out

Bulldog Drummond at Bay

Challenge

Short Story Collections:

The Lieutenant and Others

Sergeant Michael Cassidy, R.E.

Men, Women and Guns

No Man’s Land

The Human Touch

The Man in Ratcatcher and Other Stories

The Dinner Club

Out of the Blue

Jim Brent

Word of Honour

Shorty Bill

The Saving Clause

When Carruthers Laughed

John Walters

The Finger of Fate

Ronald Standish

Table of Content

Table of Content

Prologue

I

II

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

CHAPTER XIV

MELTON HOUSE, OFFHAM, NEAR LEWES.

CHAPTER XV

CHAPTER XVI

CHAPTER XVII

CHAPTER XVIII

EPILOGUE

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The officer lying back in the home-made chair tilted the peak of his cap over his eyes and let his book slip gently to the ground. A few moments later, after various unavailing waves of the hand, he pulled out a handkerchief of striking design and carefully adjusted it over his face. Then, with his hands dug deep in his pockets to remove even a square inch of skin from the ubiquitous fly, he prepared to slumber. And shortly afterwards a gentle rise and fall of the centre bulldog, so wonderfully portrayed on the bandana, announced that he had succeeded.

To anyone fresh from England who desired to see War the scene would have been disappointing. There were no signs of troops swinging down a road, singing blithely, with a cheery smile of confidence on their faces and demanding to be led back forthwith to battle with the Huns. There were no guns belching forth: the grim Panoply of War, whatever it may mean, was conspicuous by its absence. Only a very fat quartermaster-sergeant lay asleep in the sun and snored, while an ancient and dissolute old warrior, near by, was engaged in clearing out a drain as part of his Field Punishment, and had just discovered a dead dog in it. He was not singing blithely: he had no cheery smile of confidence on his face: he was just talking—gently to himself.

The field was on a slight ridge. Above the camp there floated one of a line of sausage balloons, and the cable to which it was attached stretched up taut from some point near the farmhouse behind. A triangular flag, like a burgee, flew straight out in the breeze from half-way up the cable, and the basket, looking absurdly small, hung down like a black dot below the balloon.

Peace was the keynote of the whole situation. In front the country lay stretched out, with its hedges and trees, its fields and farmhouses. In certain places there ran long rows of poles with strips of brown material stretched between them, which a spectator would rightly conclude was camouflage erected to screen the roads. Only from what? Where was the Boche in this atmosphere of sleep and quiet?

Beyond the silent countryside rose a line of hills. They seemed to start and finish abruptly—an excrescence in the all-pervading flatness. On the top of the near end of the line, clear cut against the sky, the tower and spires of a great building; at the far end, on a hill separated—almost isolated—from the main ridge, a line of stumps, gaunt tooth-pick stumps standing stiffly in a row. There was no sign of life on the hills, no sign of movement. They were dead and cold even in the warm glow of the afternoon sun. Especially the isolated one at the far end with its row of sentinel trees. There was something ghostly about it—something furtive.