H. C. McNeile

Herman Cyril McNeile (1888-1937), better known by his pen name Sapper, was a British soldier and enormously popular writer of thrillers and adventure fiction. Educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, he served with the Royal Engineers during the First World War and later drew upon his military experience in his fiction. McNeile achieved his greatest fame with Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond, the former army officer whose appetite for danger places him repeatedly against criminals, conspirators, and international villains. Beginning with Bulldog Drummond in 1920, the series became one of the defining British adventure-thriller sequences of the interwar period. Temple Tower, published in 1929, is the sixth Bulldog Drummond novel.