O Neil De Noux: 27 books

Sounds like an easy gig for New Orleans private eye Lucien Caye. Escort a pretty lady to the bayous to confirm her father had died accidentally. Gator got him. Ann Kinzer does not believe it was an accident and brings Lucien to see an old crone called The Chula who tells an unbelievable story about...

Homicide Detective Harry Roberts had seen a lot of bodies but nothing like the dismembered woman lying just outside a cemetery in the middle of the night. His partner, Det. Lydia Brown, proves to be a determined, focused hunter as she leads the way in finding the killer who may be as inhuman as what he did to the victim he left with a few pieces missing.

A lady park ranger at the Battle of New Orleans National Park spots a man in a British army uniform at 2 a.m. He stands next to one of the cannons and she thinks he’s one of those re-enactors who come to re-enact the battle every January 8th. She approaches and fog moves in and he’s no longer...

A woman is murdered in her home shortly after her husband takes out a large insurance policy. Her husband is an assistant district attorney and the cops quickly catch the killer (a hobo); but the insurance company is suspicious and hires New Orleans Private-Eye Lucien Caye to look into the matter....

Could the case of body-guarding the wild daughter of a wealthy invalid be connected to five brutal murders in uptown New Orleans? Private Eye Mike Gonzales meets the daughter when he steps into her father’s mansion. She tries to sit on his lap while he’s standing up. Night time surveillance at...

Mr. Happer is pushing seventy, a skeleton-of-a-man with razor-sharp cheek bones, sunken cheeks and withered arms that gives him cadaverous appearance. Happer has the annoying habit of watching Agatha Christie’s DEATH ON THE NILE over and over again as he sits behind his desk. A wannabe Mafiosi,...

The Date: September, 1947. The Location: Outdoor café in the seedy lower French Quarter of New Orleans. The Players: Private Eye Lucien Caye and a fine-looking redhead in a tight, black skirt and a red blouse. Each are seated at a different table. The woman reaches up, taps down...

Whispering Gulch wasn’t much of a town. Didn’t even have a boot hill like Tombstone. On a dusty day, near the end of the 19th Century, a Pinkerton man arrives in Whispering Gulch on a wandering daughter case. Hired by the wealthy father who’d received letters from his daughter post marked ‘Whispering...

As the officers and soldiers of the United States have been subject to repeated insults from the women [calling themselves ladies] of New Orleans, in return for the most scrupulous non-interference and courtesy on our part, it is ordered that hereafter when any female shall, by word, gesture, or movement,...

A haunting romance, an obsession with a beautiful woman, a thundering heart that feels as if it will burst is played out against the backdrop of Tchaikovsky and Bizet. Is that a derringer in her hand? Intermezzo – a short movement separating the major sections of a musical composition. Intermezzo...

September, 1947. A young brunette with dark brown eyes stands shivering in the rain, a pretty blonde poses in a bikini. There is also a desperate boyfriend and a murdered doctor – all drawing New Orleans Private Eye Lucien Caye into a case that may end with the first woman in Louisiana to be executed in the electric chair.

Two stories for the price of one. Both 2017 Derringer Award Finalists. Derringer Awards are given annually by the Short Mystery Fiction Society to recognize excellence in short mystery fiction. Effect on Men 2017 Derringer Finalist for the “Best Long Story” Monday, April 7, 1947,...

A Christmas Love Story for Adults. Sam hasn’t seen Tyler in nineteen years but when she steps into the Klamath Hotel in the little town of Grayville, Kansas, nestled between the Big Blue and Little Blue Rivers, her blue eyes are just as lovely, just as warm. Theirs is an unfulfilled romance...