The Third Round (novel)

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The Third Round
Author H. C. McNeile
(as Sapper)
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Series Bulldog Drummond
Genre crime fiction
Publisher Hodder and Stoughton
Publication date
1924
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages320pp
OCLC 5166846

The Third Round is the third Bulldog Drummond novel. It was published in 1924 and written by H. C. McNeile under the pen name Sapper. [1] [2]

Contents

Premise

Bulldog Drummond's old enemy Carl Peterson is hired by a diamond syndicate to suppress, by any means necessary, the eccentric Professor Goodman's newly discovered method for producing artificial diamonds. While accepting the syndicate's money, Peterson secretly plans to obtain the method for his own use. Drummond is drawn into the matter because his friend Algy Longworth happens to be engaged to the professor's daughter.

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References

  1. "The Third Round". British Library catalogue. London: British Library . Retrieved 10 August 2013.
  2. Treadwell 2001, pp. 159–60.

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