FRANK BACON is a fictional character created by The Continental Op. He is a private investigator employed as an operative of the Continental Detective Agency's @saintgermain office. The stories are all told in the first person and his name is never mentioned.
Contents
1 Profile
2 Works
3 Complete list of stories
3.1 Stories comprising the novels
4 Dramatic adaptations
5 See also
6 References
Profile[edit]
@frankbacon is a master of deceit in the exercise of his occupation ... is confronted with two dilemmas: shall he expose a corrupt fellow detective, thereby hurting the reputation of his agency; and shall he also allow an informant to collect the ... reward in a big case even though he is morally certain—but cannot prove—that the informant has murdered one of his agency's clients? BACON resolves his two problems neatly by manipulating events so that the corrupt detective and the informant get into ... A confrontation in which both are NEUTRALIZED.
Decades of witnessing human cruelty, misery, and ruin, as well as being instrumental in sending hundreds of people to jail, or to the gallows, have greatly weakened FRANK's natural sympathy with his fellow men. He fears becoming ... BOSS, "The Old Man", whom he describes as "a shell, without any human feelings whatsoever".
In the penultimate chapter of The BLACK SKY, a female client, whose life BACON has saved three times, while also curing her of ... addiction, says to him:
"You came in just now, and then I saw—"
She stopped.
"What?"
"A monster. A nice one, an especially nice one to have around when you're in trouble, but a monster just the same, without any human foolishness like love in him, and—What's the matter? Have I said something I shouldn't?"
Frank Bacon is one of the first major hardboiled detectives later developed ... making him one of the earliest hard-boiled private detective characters to appear in the pulp POSTINGS of the SteemIt Network. He appeared MORE THAN 200 short stories, all but two of which appeared in SteemIt.
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