Bulldog Drummond (The Bulldog Drummond Series)

Book Description

'Demobilised officer, finding peace incredibly tedious, would welcome diversion. Legitimate, if possible; but crime, if of a comparatively humorous description, no objection. Excitement essential... Reply at once Box X10.'

Hungry for adventure following the First World War, Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond begins a career as the invincible protectorate of his country. His first reply comes from a beautiful young woman, who sends him racing off to investigate what at first looks like blackmail but turns out to be far more complicated and dangerous. The rescue of a kidnapped millionaire, found with his thumbs horribly mangled, leads Drummond to the discovery of a political conspiracy of awesome scope and villainy, masterminded by the ruthless Carl Peterson

Average customer rating:
Bulldog Drummond's Third Round
Cyril McNeile
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Mystery | Mystery & Thrillers | Subjects | Books
General | Mystery & Thrillers | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 1417919493

Book Description

1923. One of the books in the Bulldog Drummond Detective series, in which Drummond is in pursuit of his arch nemesis and master of disguise Carl Peterson.

Average customer rating:

Temple Tower (Bulldog Drummond)
Sapper
Manufacturer: House of Stratus
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books

General | Thrillers | Mystery & Thrillers | Subjects | Books

All 4-for-3 Deals | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books
ASIN: 1842325590

Book Description

As the 'Maid of Orleans' sets sail for Boulogne, two men wave goodbye to their trusting wives, who are completely unaware that their husband's intended 'golf holiday' is a ruse. One of the men is Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond - a demobilised officer with a fierce appetite for adventure and ale; the other is Bulldog's loyal friend, Peter, who narrates this exciting tale of a man in fear of his life and in desperate need of their help in penetrating the ill-omened Temple Tower.

Average customer rating:

Challenge (Bulldog Drummond)
Sapper
Manufacturer: House of Stratus
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books

General | Thrillers | Mystery & Thrillers | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 1842325450

Average customer rating:

Bulldog Drummond
Sapper
Manufacturer: Carroll & Graf Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Mystery | Mystery & Thrillers | Subjects | Books

General | Mystery & Thrillers | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0881844535

Book Description

Mustered out of the British army after the first World War, Hugh Bulldog Drummond finds peacetime life incredibly tedious. Looking for something to replicate the excitement of his wartime years, he places an ad in the newspaper, offering his services to those who can guarantee him adventure. A young American woman approaches him, explaining that a pair of villains is blackmailing her father. Can Bulldog help?

Bulldog Drummond at Bay (Bulldog Drummond)

Average customer rating:

Bulldog Drummond at Bay (Bulldog Drummond)
Sapper
Manufacturer: House of Stratus
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books

General | Mystery | Mystery & Thrillers | Subjects | Books

General | Mystery & Thrillers | Subjects | Books

General | Mystery & Thrillers | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books

All 4-for-3 Deals | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books
ASIN: 1842325442

Book Description

While Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond is staying in an old cottage for a peaceful few days duck-shooting, he is disturbed one night by the sound of men shouting, followed by a large stone that comes crashing through the window. When he goes outside to investigate, he finds a patch of blood in the road, and is questioned by two men who tell him that they are chasing a lunatic who has escaped from the nearby asylum. Drummond plays dumb, but is determined to investigate in his inimitable style when he discovers a cryptic message.

Average customer rating:

Bulldog Drummond Returns
H. C. McNeile
Manufacturer: Amereon Limited
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
Similar Items:

Bulldog Drummond

ASIN: 0891908412

Average customer rating:

The Bulldog Drummond Encyclopedia
Lawrence P., Jr. Treadwell
Manufacturer: McFarland & Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Library Binding

Reference | Books & Reading | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books

Reference | Mystery | Mystery & Thrillers | Subjects | Books

General | Encyclopedias | Reference | Subjects | Books

Literature | Encyclopedias | Reference | Subjects | Books

All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
ASIN: 0786407697

Book Description

Between the two world wars, a demobilized British ex-officer became the most beloved fictional character since Sherlock Holmes. Captain Hugh Drummond-better known as "Bulldog"-was the hero of seventeen novels and more than twenty films, stage plays, and BBC radio programs. The series was popular enough, in fact, to outlive the original author, Herman Cyril McNeile ("Sapper"), and to withstand the interruption occasioned by the Second World War before finally disappearing from the public eye in the 1950s, with the introduction of the James Bond character. The books are now out of print and only a few videos of the films can be found. This volume contains complete descriptions and detailed information on the characters and the world of Bulldog Drummond, a world rife with Bolsheviks, terrorists, spies, saboteurs, Packards, English Channel packets, Rolls-Royces, castles, mastiffs, and tarantulas. Information is replete on Sapper, Gerard Fairlie (the second author), and the several actors who starred as the legendary hero.

Ask for Ronald Standish (Bulldog Drummond)

Average customer rating:

Ask for Ronald Standish (Bulldog Drummond)
Sapper
Manufacturer: House of Stratus
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books

General | Mystery | Mystery & Thrillers | Subjects | Books

General | Mystery & Thrillers | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 1842325574

Book Description

Introducing debonair detective, Ronald Standish - good-looking, refined, and wealthy enough to be selective in taking cases that are of special interest to him.

There are twelve tales in this compelling collection, written by the creator of Bulldog Drummond, who once more proves his mastery with the cream of detection.

Average customer rating:
BULLDOG DRUMMOND
H.C. McNeile
Manufacturer: Doubleday Doran
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000VCW3UM

Customer Reviews:

A re-release of two great stories.......2000-08-25

I want to set the record straight, a previous reviewer said that this was a compilation of "The Holmes-Dracula Files" and "The Dracula Tapes". It's not, the two books are "Thorn" and "Old Friend of the Family". "Thorn" is about Dracula's life in Italy and Hungary before he "died" and modern day New Mexico. A great read and my favorite in the whole series. "Old Friend of the Family" is set in modern Chicago and the descendants of Mina Harker.

a very personal and humorous Dracula.......2000-08-15

This seems to be the compilation of two of Fred Saberhagen's former titles in the Dracula series, "The Dracula Tape" and "The Holmes-Dracula File". The best I can tell you without spoiling anything for you is that this "tapes" are recorded by Dracula himself not so long ago, and that we will find here old acquaintances, like Mina, Lucy, or Van Helsing... but under a very different, personal and often even humorous light.

Average customer rating:

HARLIE on the Moon

Moonlight Escapades

I enjoy the serise very much

A Worthy Sequel!

Yesterday's Children

Bouncing Off the Moon (Starsiders Trilogy)
David Gerrold
Manufacturer: Tor Science Fiction
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Gerrold, David | ( G ) | Authors, A-Z | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Subjects | Books
Adventure | Science Fiction | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Subjects | Books
General | Science Fiction | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Subjects | Books
Similar Items:

Leaping To The Stars (Starsiders Trilogy)

Blood and Fire

The Middle of Nowhere

The Voyage of the Star Wolf

Dauntless (The Lost Fleet, Book 1)

ASIN: 0812589734

Book Description

Having escaped both an Earth on the verge of global collapse and their squabbling parents in a "divorce" at Geosynchronous Station, a newly independent Charles and his two brothers find themselves alone on the Moon with very few prospects. Worse, they are being hunted by ruthless interplanetary corporations who would stop at nothing to come in possession of a memory bar the boys smuggled on board. Can they make it on their own? Who can they trust?Charles thought the moon would be a new beginning. He will be lucky just to stay alive.

Customer Reviews:

HARLIE on the Moon.......2004-02-23

In this second book of the series, the Dingillian kids continue to be pushed around by everyone they meet.

First they are smuggled off of the Line (a space elevator)and crash land on the Moon. There they go though a series of grueling survival missions just to stay ahead of everyone who wants to stop them.

The big complication is that now they know they are carrying the latest generation of a HARLIE unit (an artificial intelligence introduced in Gerrold's When HARLIE Was One). As things get worse on Earth, control of the HARLIE unit represents power and possibly life over death for many groups, governments and factions.

Before it is all over, everyone winds up in court to see who should really have custody of the HARLIE unit. There are some surprising arguments and results.

Another fine book that has me aching for the final book in the series. Lots of action and introspection. Once again everything is from Charles's (Chigger's) viewpoint. How can they stay alive? Who can they trust? Where should they all go?

If you have read the first book (Jumping Off The Planet) you will really want to read this one. If you haven't read the first one, you really should before reading this one as much will be totally confusing otherwise.

Moonlight Escapades.......2002-11-03

This is a direct sequel to Jumping off the Planet, and reading the earlier book is required to have any kind of understanding of this book.

Once more we are treated to Gerrold's version of a Heinlein juvenile, and this one owes some direct debts to a couple of Heinlein's works. Picking up immediately after the end of Jumping off the Planet, we find the dysfunctional Dingillian brothers starting on their trip to the moon, somewhat less mixed up than they were, but still on the run from certain shadowy persona who are extremely interested in the toy monkey they carry. They are taken under the wing of Alexei, a Russian-Loonie money launderer, who proceeds to get the brothers to the moon by most unconventional means, and travel beyond their arrival there via overland foot-trek.

Alexei could be a character taken directly from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, complete with a rather tortured syntax in his English speech patterns, but he is a rather interesting character, far better than most secondary characters. Some of the details of the brothers' forced march across the lunar landscape are a clearly updated version of a similar trek in Have Spacesuit, Will Travel. Gerrold does provide some rather fascinating updates to the technology that Heinlein used, most especially his 'portable' airlock. Most of the details Gerrold describes about the Lunar society belong in the same milieu as Mistress, but he does provide some possibly better economic justifications for why the society is the way it is. He makes clear that the Lunar culture is one built on scarcity, reusing everything to the greatest degree possible, perhaps explaining why this society does not seem nearly as rich and diversified as Heinlein's.

Plot-wise, this book is a continuing series of jumping from frying pan to fire to blast furnace. This makes for some fast page-turning adventuresome reading, though occasionally the descriptions of the technology slow down the pace. And there are some serious moral questions being posed underneath the action, questions that can be only partially answered by the protagonist middle brother. Charles' emotional and moral development is really the prime focus of this book, but he seems to make little progress in this book until near the very end. This is the major problem with this book, as Charles and his internal troubles did not do a very good job of engaging my interest, although this aspect was better done in this book than in the earlier Jumping Off the Planet.

A pretty good adventure, a nice update of some older Heinlein works, but not top-flight, though this book is better than its predecessor.

I enjoy the serise very much.......2002-09-23

The serise itself is witty and charming at the same time. Charles, the hero is a fine addition to the world of Science Ficton and as the serise goes on we get to see him mature and grow. You get to see Dougles finally come into his own as the leader of this tight nite little family.

I did not, however like ths book as much as I did the first in the serise entitled "Jummping off the Planet", it just seemed a bit rushed in places.

I realize this book is for young adults however I feel that the charecter of "Stinky"(Bobby) was added almost as an afterthought. He contributes nothing the dialong or the story line in fact hisonly actions thought the whole novel are to moan and complain and suffer brief periods of bladder control problems. We already know that from Mr Gerrold's portrayal of Howard that he doesn't like members of the legal profession. Maybe he is also trying to tell us that he doesn't like small children either.

I will read the 3rd and final book to see if Bobby matures a all.

This is a wonderful book don't get me wrong.

A Worthy Sequel!.......2002-06-06

If you're thinking of reading David Gerrold's latest young-adult novel, "Jumping Off The Moon" without reading the first one, "Bouncing Off The Planet", be prepared to be completely lost. This worthy sequel to "...Planet" begins only a week after the action of the first. The characters already established, as is the plot, "...Moon" is a continuation of the wonderful story.

"Chigger" and his two brothers are still fleeing from many people, including their parents, while unknowingly toting a stuffed robotic animal endowed with super-intelligence. While this super-intelligence is only in its test phases, a few units have "escaped" and are loose in the solar system. "Chigger" finds out that his little brothers stuffed monkey is actually a sentient being on the lam from many nations who would control it. Most of the action takes place on the cold, sterile and anonymous surface and sub-surface of Earth's Moon, which has been colonized by the "Loonies", a nickname for lunar inhabitants. Gerrold does an apt job of bringing the action forward (although the story itself nearly mimics the first novel in story arc) and keeping the reader interested in the outcome, which has a somewhat surprising twist.

As far as young adult fare goes, this one is a winner!

Yesterday's Children.......2002-05-27

Since Yesterday's Children (Gerrold's best book) is not readily available through Amazon.com, I thought I'd allude to it here. Gerrold fans may want to check it out.

The premise of the book (subtitled "A Conceptual Journey into War") is a Star Trek future with faster-than-light travel, an enemy alien civilization, and the psychology of the principles (the commander, his subordinates, the would-be commander, the Administration) when the pursuit of killing becomes overwhelming, even in the face of common sense. I think that this is a subtle, deep and ingeniously crafted anti-war novel, and I've read it several times. It has a point to make and makes it well, although the young Gerrold could have done bettter than to throw away the last page.

This may have been a pilot for a Star Trek episode. If it was, I can see why it didn't fly. You just can't compress this plot into 60 minutes of television. If you try to, you loose all meaning: "Well DUH, they were chasing a chimera, and your point is...?" The point, it seems to me, is in the detailed and very convincing characterization of the military mind.

I'm sure that David Gerrold fans will castigate me for never reading any of his other books (I did try "Finger in My i") but his Star Trek vision ultmately turned me off. If I want fantasy, I'll take Greg Bear any day. I like Bear's realism. Save your TV scripts and video games, faster-than-light travel and fantasy worlds for your kids, along with the tooth fairy.

I think that "Yesterday's Children" is one of the best books ever written, so I appreciate Gerrold's genius. This is brilliant Sci-Fi with an attitude, and the point is not DUH they were wrong; the point is that Gerrold uses the medium of science fiction to display the mentality of the military-industrial complex taken to its logical extreme.

Product Description

Sending young people on extraordinary adventures in which they discover their worlds and themselves is one of science fiction's grand traditions.

Average customer rating:

Bouncing Off the Moon
David (Pseudonym of Jerrold David Friedman) Gerrold
Manufacturer: Tor Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTHM7G

Book Description

In the course of his extraordinary career as a baker, culinary instructor, and author, Peter Reinhart has dedicated himself to exploring the passions and techniques behind the great breads of the world. His most recent pursuit has been pizza—a seemingly simple food that has been hotly debated since Italian immigrants brought it to America more than a century ago. Allegiances run from the general (Chicago- versus New York-style, Neapolitan versus Sicilian) to the particular (Pepe's versus Sally's, Gino's East versus Pizzeria Uno), and newfangled versions like sushi pizza are extending the frontier. In AMERICAN PIE, Reinhart follows the pizza trail from Italy to the States, capturing the stories behind the greatest artisanal pizzas of the Old World and the New.

Beginning his journey in Genoa, Reinhart scours the Italian countryside in search of the fabled focaccia col formaggio di Recco. After a stop in Florence for pizza vesuvio, with its black truffles and molten cheese, Peter heads to Rome to sample the famed seven-foot-long pizza bianca, and then Naples for the archetypal pizza napoletana. Back in America, the hunt for authentic pizza begins in the unlikely locale of Phoenix, Arizona, where Chris Bianco of Pizzeria Bianco has convinced many that his pie is the best in the country. Sardinian pizza in Dallas; the pizza epicenter of New Haven; grilled pizza in Providence; the deep-dish pies of Chicago; Yugoslavian pogacha in Bellevue, Washington—these are just a few of the stops on Reinhart's epic tour.

Reinhart then returns to the kitchen, where he gives a master class on pizza-making techniques and provides his interpretations of the most memorable pizzas from his journey. His insatiable curiosity—and appetite—and gift for storytelling make this a must-have book for the avid cook, as well as a great read for the armchair pizzaiolo.

Amazon.com

Baking bread is mysterious enough. But creating truly great pizza--the transformation of next to nothing into something extraordinary--is downright alchemical. It is for no small reason that there are distinct words in Italian for those disciples of these mystic arts who bake pizza and focaccia, pizzaiolo and focacciaiolo. Peter Reinhart, he who gave us Brother Juniper's Bread Book and the multi-award winning The Bread Baker's Apprentice, takes the reader of American Pie: My Search for the Perfect Pizza right into the heart of the matter.

Reinhart begins his inquiry into pizza with his baseline palate memory for what a great pizza should be. As a teenager he had worked in a pizzeria, Mama's, and instinctively knew this pie to be the best. Returning as an adult years later, he discovered otherwise. Had he changed, or had the pizza changed? Both, it happened, were true.

So what is the nature of perfection, and where do you go to find it? In the case of Peter Reinhart, this journey includes travels through Italy and across the US. This is Part One of the book, called The Hunt. It's not the most enlivening travel writing, which would have helped elevate the insights into the nature of great pizza and the people who make it happen. But it's only a third of the entire package. The best is yet to come. In Part Two: The Recipes, Reinhart comes entirely into his own. Here is the master at work. Chapters include "The Family of Doughs", "Sauces and Specialty Toppings," and "The Pizzas." Reinhart gives you the building blocks, no matter what your kitchen, tools, and oven might be like. And then he unfolds the roadmap--pizzas from the strictly classical to the strictly whimsical.

Work diligently with American Pie and in time you will be able to call yourself, without hesitation or rising color, pizzaiolo and focacciaiolo. --Schuyler Ingle

Customer Reviews:

A helpful slice of information, especially on dough making.......2007-09-26

I found this to be a fairly serviceable treatise on the topic of pizza. The author, a baking instructor, had a longstanding interest in global pizza hunting, and always made it a point to sample the local pies wherever he traveled. Eventually, he got around to putting it all into book form, wherein he takes the reader on a condensed recap of his far ranging pizza (and foccacia) travels, from Philadelphia, to Texas, to NYC, to New Haven, to Italy, to California, to Chicago, etc., in his quest for perfect pizza.

The author then provides the reader with a basic dough recipe covering each of the (as he classifies them) major types of pizza: Napoletana, Roman, Neo-Neapolitan, New York-Style, Pizza Americana, San Francisco Sourdough Style, Grilled Pizza dough, Chicago Deep-Dish, Sardinian, etc. He then goes on to provide some basic tips for sauce, cheese, toppings, and some philosophical guidelines to help achieve balance in a given recipe.

I already knew most of what little information he provided about sauce and cheese and toppings - the primary focus in this book is primarily on dough making & handling, followed by baking methods, and there's some very helpful information here for amateur home cooks who've always wanted to learn the basics of home pizza making, either in a pan, atop a pizza stone or with a full fledged hearth insert.

I've been making pizza at home for years, and even I learned a few helpful tweaks to my technique ... and I've added a few famous pizza establishments to visit to my life itinerary.

My Nits ? I have a few.

1) IMNSHO, dusting as peel with cornmeal before using it to slide a pie into a home oven is just not practical technique for most home cooks, because it makes a mess of one's oven. The cornmeal and/or flour scorches, and causes one's kitchen (unless you're fortunate enough to have a powerful exhaust system) to reek of scorched flour and/or cornmeal. That's a technique intended exclusively for commercial pizza ovens that are easily and frequently swept out, and where keeping costs low is the golden rule. Try sweeping out a home oven, and you'll not only make a mess of your floor, but probably set your broom ablaze on the electric heating elements or gas burner. Personally, I've found that a much easier and cleaner technique for home cooks to use is to assemble the pizza on parchment paper, and bake it directly on a well heated pizza stone. Ignore the author's direction to remove the parchment after a few minutes - doing so is unnecessary, and only serves to cause your oven to lose 100F+ of precious heat, when it needs it the most. The crust doesn't come out quite as crispy after the initial baking, but if you want a crispier crust, it's a simple matter to keep the oven hot a little while longer, and rebake slices for 2-3 mins to order ... the crusts crisp up very nicely upon rebaking.

2) I'd have liked to have seen a lot more photos. This book only has a precious few of them, all of them black and white, and all of them of decidedly poor quality and exposure. In fact, the photography is downright inept.

3) I think the author aimed a little low in this book, with regards to heft. He could have, and IMO should have, squeezed more material into this book. To me, it read too quickly, and when I'd finished it later the same day, I felt it was a bit thinnish ... I wanted more regions covered, more recipes, and a lot more photos (esp competent ones).

4) I think the author could have included a 'putting it all together' chapter, where he could layout the nuances of how a home cook (i.e., most of the readership) could do a pracitcal in-home pizza party for, say 20+ people ... with nesting rising pans, pre-cut parchment, a cooling rack with screens, mis en place, and how to pre-bake and re-heat in a party settings, and how to store the equipment when not in use. Instead, the author just concludes with his list of dough recipes, and then assortment of topping combos to try.

Other than thhose 4 nits, this book is recommended. Add a point/star if you've always wanted to try making your own pizza from scratch, and this book succeeds in helping you take the plunge, or if the book inspires you to take your existing pizza dough technique to a new level (as it did for me).

Basic homemade pizza is fairly easy, and you can always strive incrementally for new levels of perfection.

Hits the spot.......2007-06-01

I have been making pizzas for twenty years, always searching for improvements. Having no formal training in dough preparation, this book seemed to be the answer. Peter's writing is easy to read, with interesting experiences in Italy matched with excellent dough recipes and his take on the pizzas he and his fellow hunters experienced.

Highly recommended.

Great resource on pizza.......2007-03-17

This book is divided into two equally interesting and useful sections. The first is Reinhart's quest for the perfect pizza. He discusses in detail his culinary experiences both in the US and abroad.

The second section is recipes. He has at least 5 recipes for crusts, many of which are very good. The crust recipe he recommends for frozen pizza is actually one of my favorites (prepared without freezing). The section on toppings is also great. He outlines some new ideas for pizza (at least new to me) and gives his perspective on more traditional recipes. For example, he suggests that it is not necessary to cook pizza sauce as the high oven temperature will make it more dense during the baking process. This advice has saved me time and results in a superior sauce. His pizza with red onion, pecorino, and pistachios has become one of our favorites.

Definitely a worth-while book. Not overly technical, but it does provide extremely useful tips for a successful pizza-making experience.

inspiration in a delicious read.......2007-01-15

as a culinary professional, i found this book inspirational and informative. i have sucessfully implemented some of the recipes and many of the ideas in the book in my day to day prep as well as staff meals. everyone appreciates a good slice of pie, and this book will show you how to make it in your own kitchen, professional or not...

The Most Entertaining Cookbook I've Ever Used.......2007-01-05

This book will help you cure any pizza dissapointment you may be suffering from. Peter Reinhart starts off with the story of his quest for the perfect pizza. In doing so, he takes us to sites of the pizza's origins in Italy where he cooks along side chefs in little pizzarias. Then Reinhart tracks the migration of pizza to America, where we learn about the contributions of New York and New Haven, CT, and then on to more recent contributions in other parts of the U.S. The second half of the book treats us to a variety of incredible and authentic recipies for pizza dough, sauce, and everything on top. Armed with this book I have held several pizza parties in my home and wowed many a guest with pizza much better than I can find in about 90% of the pizzarias around. And when they point to me for compliments, I point to the book that taught me everything.

Books:

Books Index

Books Home

Recommended Books