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Episode No. 28 Crescent City Crime Date: July 5, 2008 Notes: O’Neil De Noux is a police officer-turned-writer. He has worked as a homicide
detective and organized crime investigator. He has also been a private investigator, U.S. Army combat photographer, criminal
intelligence analyst, newspaper writer, magazine editor, computer graphics designer and creative writing instructor. He is
the author of numerous books, articles and short stories.
As a police officer, O’Neil De Noux received seven commendations for solving
difficult murder cases. In 1981, he was named ‘Homicide Detective of the Year’ for the Jefferson
Parish Sheriff’s Office. In 1989, he was proclaimed an ‘Expert Witness’ on the homicide
crime scene in Criminal District Court, New Orleans, LA.
O’Neil De Noux’s published novels include: Grim Reaper, The Big Kiss,
Blue Orleans, Crescent City Kills and the Big Show. His short story collections include Hollow Point/The Mystery of Rochelle
Marais and Lastanza: New Orleans Police Stories; which received an “A” rating from Entertainment Weekly Magazine.
O’Niel De Noux adapted one of the Lastanza stories “Waiting for Alaina” into a screenplay, which
was filmed in New Orleans and broadcast on local TV in 2001.
In March 2006, New Orleans Confidential, a collection of 1940’s noir private-eye
short stories was published by PointBlank Press. According to Weekly, “Former homicide detective
De Noux turns out an engaging, fast-paced collection of stories featuring private eye and womanizer extraordinaire Lucien
Caye as he tracks philandering husbands, possible murderers and missing cats. Set predominantly against the rich backdrop
of 1940s New Orleans, these stories-abounding with ample bosoms and willing women-are fun, and the author knows his stuff
when it comes to the Big Easy.” Another Lucien Caye story, The Heart Has Reasons, won the Private
Eye Writer’s of America’s prestigious Shamus Award for Best Short Story 2007.
Besides his novels, O’Neil De Noux has had over 200 short stories published.
Until Hurricane Katrina, he taught creative writing and mystery writing courses at the University of New Orleans and Delgado
Community College and McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA, from 1993 to 2005. He is the founding
editor of two fiction magazines, Mystery Street and New Orleans Stories.
Currently, O’Neil De Noux has two original short stories Guilty of Dust
and Sin and Maria’s Hand available on Amazon Shorts, an audio story “Ankle Biters of Old Arizona;
or, Attack of the Wild Chihuahuas (on Sniplits.com) and stories forthcoming in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Ellery
Queen Mystery Magazine, as well as a number of anthologies.
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 Police Investigator with the Southeastern Louisiana University Police Department
in Hammond, LA.
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