Re: Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

On 17 Jun 2025 04:07:24 GMT, ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan
<tednolan>) wrote:

I'm a little confused.  Are you talking about the 1934 film?
I don't see a McNeil book by that title.

The book was also a little thin; I envisioned the publisher
saying "Herman, baby, they'll buy *anything* with Bulldog in
the title, so crank something out."  The gang had a dramatic
scene, but were scarcely name-checked, as if thrown in
because they were part of the Bulldog mythos.  And despite
their ample numbers, they didn't search the mansion after
rescuing Bulldog from the squash court.

Wikipedia says that Bulldog married in the very first
adventure, and I distinctly remember Peterson playing
treasure hunt with a kidnapped wife when I read the books at
the Colfax library in the fifties.  In this book there isn't
the slightest hint that Bulldog has ever even considered
matrimony; it sounds more like one of the movie adaptations.

Surely Grosset & Dunlap were above commissioning a rip-off
and passing it off as the work of H.C. McNeil.

I can't read your replies until I figure out how to stop
marking everything read when I download, and there's a *lot*
of more-important backlog.  Tomorrow I hope to run a load of
wash -- I'm completely out of non-heavy socks.

But I've finally caught up on sleep; I woke up for my usual
anti-nap tonight.

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