Peterson
The first four books deal with Drummond against Carl Peterson (who becomes his arch-enemy). Peterson is also a master of disguise and uses many aliases. He is killed in the fourth book, The Final Count. Peterson is in part modelled on earlier types of super-villain, including Professor Moriarty, the enemy of Sherlock Holmes. This is additionally signalled by Drummond's suggestion, in The Third Round, that they fight a duel on a glacier, recalling the contest between Holmes and Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls. In his complex schemes for world-domination, he is also reminiscent of Sax Rohmer's character, Fu Manchu.
The title of the fifth Bulldog Dummond book, The Female of the Species refers to Rudyard Kipling's line; "the female of the species is more deadly than the male". Drummond's adversary here is Peterson's (presumed—their relationship is never explicitly stated) mistress Irma, who in this and a number of following books seeks to kill Drummond in revenge for the death of her lover.
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