The Hard-Boiled Detective 1: First Series Collection - Paperback

by Ben Solomon (Author)

"My highest recommendation for The Hard-Boiled Detective by Ben Solomon."
- Robert W. Walker, author of Cutting Edge and Grave Instinct

For the first time, the original 11 yarns from Solomon's ongoing, throw-back crime series are available in one volume. His nameless detective faces murderers, blackmailers, adulterers and racketeers-and that's only the first story in this collection. Ten more tales cover a never-ending parade of lowlifes, misfits and suckers, all narrated by the hard-luck gumshoe in his statements to the cops. If you're a fan of Black Mask," Chandler and Hammett, you'll get a bang out of Solomon's take on old-school detective fiction.

"Ben Solomon draws you in like a moth to a jail cell light bulb. And then you are captured. His lean prose and jazz rhythms run from Lower Wacker Drive to the Club De Lisa. Ben Solomon raises the bar on Chicago noir."
-Dave Hoekstra, Chicago author and former patron of Mike's Cop Bar

Author Biography

Ben Solomon grew up with Picasso, Cagney and Beethoven. Classical arts training, comic books and Hollywood's golden age rounded out an education fit for a renaissance-hack, and provided inspiration for a lifetime. He's worked across disciplines, attempting to capture music upon canvas, translate oils and silver nitrate into words. Solomon's passion for the tough guy world of early gangster and PI flicks led to his creation of his short story series, "The Hard-Boiled Detective." He premiered the adventures online in February 2013, offering three yarns a month to subscribers. His hard-boiled and other fiction have appeared in e-zines across the web as well as the 2014 anthology "The Shamus Sampler II." Another adventure is scheduled for the "Drag Noir" anthology from Fox Spirit in October 2014. A member of the Short Mystery Fiction Society, Solomon lives and writes in Chicago.