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Bull-dog Drummond: The Adventures of a Demobilised Officer Who Found Peace Dull

Bull-dog Drummond: The Adventures of a Demobilised Officer Who Found Peace Dull

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BookID: 49935

Language:English

Creator:McNeile, H. C. (Herman Cyril), 1888-1937

Reading Level:Reading ease score: 82.8 (6th grade). Easy to read.

Copyright Status:Public domain in the USA.

Detective and mystery storiesEnglish fiction -- 20th centuryWorld War, 1914-1918 -- Veterans -- FictionDrummond, Bulldog (Fictitious character) -- Fiction

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"Bull-dog Drummond: The Adventures of a Demobilised Officer Who Found Peace Dull" by H. C. McNeile is a novel published in 1920. When restless ex-Army Captain Hugh Drummond advertises for adventure in The Times, he receives a desperate reply from a young woman whose father is being blackmailed. The case leads Drummond into a dangerous conspiracy involving archvillain Carl Peterson, who plots a communist coup d'Γ©tat in Britain for profit. Captured and escaping multiple times, Drummond must rely on his ex-army friends to stop Peterson's scheme. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Class:PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

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