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McBride, Rex. Rex McBride was created by Cleve F. Adams (Canavan & Kleinschmidt, Engelhardt & Dewey, Steve McCloud, Violet McDade, Bill Rye, John J. Shannon) and appeared in six novels and a radio show from 1940 to 1955, beginning with And Sudden Death.

The Rex McBride stories were heavily influenced by Dashiell Hammett’s stories, but Rex McBride is far more unlikable and nasty than the Continental Op or Sam Spade. An insurance investigator, McBride is tall, slender, dark, and handsome, and “has a capacity for long, brooding silences, sudden ribald laughter, mad fury, and aloof arrogance.” He is also dumb, cynical, hypocritical, and full of hate for women and non-whites–in his own words, “An American Gestapo is goddamn well what we need.”

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