Challenge (novel)

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Challenge
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UK cover for Challenge
Author H. C. McNeile
(as Sapper)
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Series Bulldog Drummond
Genre crime fiction
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
Publication date
1937
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages311pp
OCLC 2476396

Challenge was the tenth and final Bulldog Drummond novel written by H. C. McNeile. It was published in 1935 under McNeile's pen name Sapper. [1] [2]

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References

  1. "Challenge. A Bulldog Drummond novel". British Library catalogue. London: British Library. Archived from the original on 16 August 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
  2. Treadwell 2001, pp. 37–38.

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