[Next Project] The Black Gang

[Chris Spurgeon]

I've been reading Bulldog Drummond, and would be up for generating some more books in the series. So I'd like to next produce The Black Gang, the second book in the Bulldog Drummond series.

PG doesn't seem to have a transcription, but there's one at https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20160528 .

Book images are on archive.org at https://archive.org/details/bwb_P8-BIQ-641/mode/2up

OK?

[Chris Spurgeon]

It's also on Australia's Project Gutenberg at https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800501h.html 

[Alex Cabal]

Sure, send a link to your repo once you start.

On 7/13/26 8:10 PM, Chris Spurgeon wrote:
> It's also on Australia's Project Gutenberg at https://gutenberg.net.au/
> ebooks08/0800501h.html
>
> On Monday, July 13, 2026 at 9:03:50 PM UTC-4 Chris Spurgeon wrote:
>

> I've been reading /Bulldog Drummond/, and would be up for generating
> some more books in the series. So I'd like to next produce /The
> Black Gang/, the second book in the Bulldog Drummond series.

>
> PG doesn't seem to have a transcription, but there's one at https://

> www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20160528 <https://
> www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20160528> .
>
> Book images are on archive.org <http://archive.org> at https://
> archive.org/details/bwb_P8-BIQ-641/mode/2up <https://archive.org/
> details/bwb_P8-BIQ-641/mode/2up>
>
> OK?
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[Chris Spurgeon]

Here's the repo...

https://github.com/chrisspurgeon/h-c-mcneile_the-black-gang

Chris

[Alex Cabal]

OK, Robin will manage with Lukas reviewing.

On 7/15/26 1:26 PM, Chris Spurgeon wrote:
> Here's the repo...
>
> https://github.com/chrisspurgeon/h-c-mcneile_the-black-gang
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, July 14, 2026 at 2:20:25 PM UTC-4 Alex Cabal wrote:
>
> Sure, send a link to your repo once you start.
>
> On 7/13/26 8:10 PM, Chris Spurgeon wrote:
> > It's also on Australia's Project Gutenberg at https://

> gutenberg.net.au/ <https://gutenberg.net.au/>

> > ebooks08/0800501h.html
> >
> > On Monday, July 13, 2026 at 9:03:50 PM UTC-4 Chris Spurgeon wrote:
> >
> > I've been reading /Bulldog Drummond/, and would be up for generating
> > some more books in the series. So I'd like to next produce /The
> > Black Gang/, the second book in the Bulldog Drummond series.
> >
> > PG doesn't seem to have a transcription, but there's one at https://

> > www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20160528 <http://
> www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20160528> <https://
> > www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20160528 <http://
> www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20160528>> .
> >
> > Book images are on archive.org <http://archive.org> <http://

> archive.org <http://archive.org>> at https://

> > archive.org/details/bwb_P8-BIQ-641/mode/2up <http://archive.org/
> details/bwb_P8-BIQ-641/mode/2up> <https://archive.org/ <https://
> archive.org/>

> > details/bwb_P8-BIQ-641/mode/2up>
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> > OK?
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[Chris Spurgeon]

I’m guessing the answer to this is going to be “leave it as is”, but I wanted to ask about a pattern that pops up a few times in the text, where a sentence has a parenthetical thought within it that ends in a question mark. Here’s an example…

“Either the entire thing was a hoax, in which case, why had McIver himself taken such elaborate precautions to prevent anything happening? or it was not a hoax, in which case McIver had been made a complete fool of.”

That question mark in the middle of the sentence seems just wrong to me. What if I inserted em dashes, like this…

“Either the entire thing was a hoax – in which case, why had McIver himself taken such elaborate precautions to prevent anything happening? – or it was not a hoax, in which case McIver had been made a complete fool of.”

?

[Robin Whittleton]

As expected, we do nothing in this case, same as with mid-thought interjections with exclamation marks. It’s typical style for 100+ year literature.

-Robin

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