Racism
McNeile's works are, to a modern reader, strongly laced with jingoism and racial stereotypes. This was typical of British adventure stories of the period (e.g. Buchan's Greenmantle, 1916), but McNeile's works are notable for their frequent hostile references to foreigners, especially Germans, and to Jews.
In The Final Count, for example, Russia is referred to as "ruled by its clique of homicidal alien Jews." Earlier in the book, one of Drummond's companions disguises himself as "a nasty-looking little Jew".
In The Female of the Species, Drummond disguises himself as a black henchman of the villainous Irma and, revealing himself to Irma and his astonished companions, explains: "Every beard is not false, but every nigger smells. That beard ain't false, dearie, and dis nigger don't smell. So I'm thinking there's something wrong somewhere."
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