A Police Detective-Sergeant, O’Neil De Noux is a published novelist and
short story writer. He is also the founding editor of two fiction magazines:
Mystery Street and New Orleans Stories.
De Noux’s novels (Grim Reaper, The Big Kiss, Blue Orleans, Crescent City
Kills, The Big Show) have been lauded for their hyper-realistic portrayal of police work.
His short story collection, LaStanza: New Orleans Police Stories received an “A” rating by Entertainment
Weekly Magazine. Mr. De Noux adapted a short story from this collection, which
was televised and broadcast in New Orleans.
Over 200 of O’Neil De Noux’s short stories have appeared in magazines
and anthologies in the U.S., Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Scotland, Sweden and Ukraine.
His story “Death on Denial”, published in the critically acclaimed
anthology, Flesh & Blood: Guilty as Sin, edited by Max Allan Collins and Jeff Gelb (Mysterious Press) was selected to
be in the anthology Best American Mystery Stories 2003 (Houghton Mifflin).
New Orleans Confidential, a short story collection of 1940s Private-Eye stories,
was published by PointBlank Press in March 2006. New Orleans Irresistible, a
short story collection of erotic detective stories, was published by EAA Signature Series Books in May 2006.
Two additional books are: American Casanova – The New Adventures of the
Legendary Lover, A Collaboration of 15 Writers Directed by Maxim Jakubowski, (Avalon Publishing, New York, 2006) and Mafia
Aphrodite (Neon Books, London, UK, 2008).
After his home was seriously damaged by Hurricane Katrina, O’Neil De
Noux re-settled on the northshore of Lake Pontchartrain in 2006 and returned to law enforcement. He is currently a Detective-Sergeant with the Louisiana Department of Public Safety working with the Southeastern
Louisiana University Police Department in Hammond, LA.
