Rex Sackler
Created by D.L. Champion (1903-68)

Skinny, erudite REX SACKLER is an eccentric private eye so tight with a buck he practically squeaks. He appeared regularly in a string of quite humourous short stories in the pages of Black Mask from 1940 -50. The cases of this so-called "parsinomous prince of penny-pinchers" are narrated by his assistant, Joey Graham, a sort of Archie Goodwin to Sackler's Nero Wolfe.

Author Champion was born in Australia and educated in New York. He served with the British Army in World War I, worked in the merchant marine, and read copy for a slew of magazines, before turning to writing himself. He was also the creator of legless, cantankerous "unofficial" homicide dick Inspector Allhoff and Mexican "detectivo particular" Mariano Mercado.

SHORT STORY

• "What's Money?" (January 1942, Black Mask)
• "Come Out of the Grave" (February 1943, Black Mask)
• "Heads -- The Corpse Loses" (September 1943, Black Mask)
• “Cash as Cash Can” (September 1944, Black Mask)
• "Padlocked Pockets" (July 1947, Black Mask)

Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.