Inspired by the hard boiled noir-style detectives in American fiction, Herman Cyril McNeile created the fictional character Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond.
Drummond is a former WWI office who becomes a private detective after the war. Drummond first appeared in the novel Bulldog Drummond in 1920. Drummond later appeared in a book series, films, radio, and television. According to Detectionary, "Drummond...has the appearance of an English gentleman: a man who fights hard, plays hard and lives clean...His best friend would not call him good-looking but he possesses that cheerful type of ugliness which inspires immediate confidence...Only his eyes redeem his face. Deep-set and steady, with eyelashes that many women envy, they show him to be a sportsman and an adventurer. Drummond does outside the law when he feels the ends justify the means."
Inspired by the hard boiled noir-style detectives in American fiction, Herman Cyril McNeile created the fictional character Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond.
