. . . . . "Bulldog Drummond was a wealthy former World War I officer of His Majesty's Royal Loamshire Regiment, who became a private detective after returning from the war. He places an advertisement in the local newspaper: \"Demobililsed Officer finding peace incredibly tedious would welcome diversion. Legitimate if possible; but crime of a humorous description, no objection. Excitement essential.\" Drummond is big, tough and willing to kill. He is aided by ex-military buddies (Peter Darrell, Algy Longworth, Ted Jerringham and Toby Sinclair) who later become the Black Gang, a team of vigilante crime fighters in black hoods and black leather. They are hunted by Scotland Yard's Director of Criminal Investigation, Sir Bryan Johnstone and Chief Inspector MacIver. Drummond's original arch enemy was a man named Carl Peterson, whose wife, Irma, was a sexy femme fatale mistress to Bulldog. In his first two adventures, Drummond foiled Peterson's attempts to lead a coup d'\u00E9tat in England by communists. After his first adventure, Drummond married Phyllis Benton, the first woman who hired him. She was frequently kidnapped."@en . . "The Strand Magazine"@en . . . . . "Captain Hugh \"Bulldog\" Drummond, DSO, MC"@en . . . . . . . . "Herman Cyril McNeile"@en . . "Bulldog Drummond is a 1920 thriller novel by \"Sapper\" (real name Herman Cyril McNeile). Captain Hugh \"Bulldog\" Drummond is finding life boring now that the War is over. He meets an attractive young woman whose father has become entangled in an international conspiracy to overthrow the British Empire... The novel had over a dozen sequels and inspired around two dozen films. The film series had its last gasp in the 1960s; by then, it was transparently attempting to attract the audience of the Bond movies."@en . . "Created by"@en . . . . . . . "Bulldog Drummond"@en . . . . "Original Publisher"@en . . "The Strand Magazine"@en . . . . . . "Real Name"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Bulldog Drummond is a 1920 thriller novel by \"Sapper\" (real name Herman Cyril McNeile). Captain Hugh \"Bulldog\" Drummond is finding life boring now that the War is over. He meets an attractive young woman whose father has become entangled in an international conspiracy to overthrow the British Empire... The novel had over a dozen sequels and inspired around two dozen films. The film series had its last gasp in the 1960s; by then, it was transparently attempting to attract the audience of the Bond movies. The series was popular in its time and influenced the development of the pulp thriller. It was so popular, it inspired parodies: PG Wodehouse's Leave it to Psmith includes a protracted and not unAffectionate Parody of the first novel's opening. But it has aged badly because of its heroes' casual nationalist and racist bigotry. Modern references (as in Bullshot, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and Kim Newman's \"Pitbull Brittan\") are most often bitingly satirical in the vein of \"They don't make 'em like that any more and the world is better for it\"."@en . "Bulldog Drummond"@en . "First Appearance"@en . . "Bulldog Drummond was a wealthy former World War I officer of His Majesty's Royal Loamshire Regiment, who became a private detective after returning from the war. He places an advertisement in the local newspaper: \"Demobililsed Officer finding peace incredibly tedious would welcome diversion. Legitimate if possible; but crime of a humorous description, no objection. Excitement essential.\" After his first adventure, Drummond married Phyllis Benton, the first woman who hired him. She was frequently kidnapped."@en .