Bulldog Drummond at bay vs Temple tower: Which Should You Read?

Bulldog Drummond at bay H. C. McNeile · 1935 ★★★★☆ 3.9 398 pages · ≈ 7 h 22 m · Challenging

Drummond had gone to the country seeking peace and quiet, but when on his first night a stone wrapped in a brown, blood-stained sheet of paper crashed through his window, the paper bearing the mysterious message, "Mary…

Temple tower H. C. McNeile · 1900 ★★★★☆ 3.9 146 pages · ≈ 2 h 42 m · Challenging

“You " snarled Spragge. "I've warned you once: now you can have it." I almost laughed: how many men had said words to that effect in days gone by? And with the same result. Spragge shot out a fist like a leg of mutton, which encountered air, and the next instant he was lying flat on his back in the middle of the road, completely knocked out. "Quick, Peter," said Hugh urgently. " Sling the bli”

Captain Hugh Drummond, enjoying country life in his house on Romney Marsh, notices red and blue lights from a lonely farmhouse know as Spragge’s Farm. Investigating with his friend Peter Darrell, they stumble across a…