Bulldog Drummond: The Adventures of a Demobilized Office Who Found Peace Dull

Bulldog Drummond is the first Bulldog Drummond novel. It was published in 1920.

Ex-British Army Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond, DSO, MC, a wealthy former World War I officer of the Loamshire Regiment, dashing and strong, places an advertisement in The Times stating his desire for adventure. He receives a reply from a young woman, concerned about some business acquaintances of her father who is being blackmailed by archvillain Carl Peterson, attempting to organise a coup d'état to enable a pro-communist takeover of Britain.

Drummond is captured several times, and manages to escape several times, before eventually defeating Peterson and his henchmen, with the aid of ex-army friends.