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    The Flying Lady Diner
    The Flying Lady Diner
    The Flying Lady Diner
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    The Flying Lady Diner

    By O'Neil De Noux

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    Set in 1948 – New Orleans private eye Joe Torres, on a wandering son case, pulls out of a rainstorm along US 90 and runs into a silver diner that looks like an oversized Airstream camper with a red and blue neon sign reading: Flying Lady Diner. There’s a tall, redheaded waitress, slim yet heavy-chested, with long slender legs. The woman breezes up, smiles, focuses her pretty green eyes at Joe who learns THE great lesson of his life. The value of brown eyes.

    As lagniappe – something extra, we’ve included another story set in 1948, “Friscoville” by O’Neil De Noux. New Orleans private eye Lucien Caye looks into the case of a missing cat for an eight year old girl and ends up on the front page of every paper in town.

    A short story by Debra Gray De Noux and O'Neil De Noux. Cover Art by David Miller

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherO'Neil De Noux
    Release dateMay 28, 2011
    ISBN9781458006110
    The Flying Lady Diner
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    O'Neil De Noux

    O’Neil De Noux writes in many genres, primarily realistic crime fiction, strong on setting, mostly New Orleans, featuring the accurate dialogue of the streets. He also writes scintillating erotica. His publishing credits include 20 novels, nine short story collections and over 300 short stories. From contemporary to historical, De Noux uses several recurring characters in his New Orleans stories and novels: NOPD Homicide Detective John Raven Beau (21st Century); NOPD Homicide Detective LaStanza (20th Century); Private-eye Lucien Caye (1940s) and NOPD Detective Jacques Dugas (1890s). A primary theme in De Noux’s fiction is the effect of violence on victims and their families as well as the sometimes debilitating effect of violence on law enforcement officers, private-eyes and their loved ones. As a former private-eye and currently a police investigator, De Noux knows his subject well. De Noux’s stories span from mystery to mainstream, literary, suspense, thriller, science-fiction, fantasy, horror, erotica, humor, westerns, children’s fiction as well as cross-genre stories – erotic-detective, science-fiction mysteries and the like. O’Neil De Noux’s “The Heart Has Reasons” (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, September 2006) won the Private Eye Writers of America’s prestigious SHAMUS AWARD for BEST SHORT STORY 2007. The SHAMUS is given annually to recognize outstanding achievement in private eye fiction. In 2009, the Short Mystery Fiction Society awarded the Derringer Award for Best Novelette to another Lucien Caye story, “Too Wise” by O’Neil De Noux (which appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine’s November 2008 Issue). The Derringer Award is given annually to recognize excellence in the mystery short form. In June 2012, De Noux’s novel JOHN RAVEN BEAU was named 2011 POLICE BOOK OF THE YEAR by Police-Writers.com, a group that boasts of 1153 state and local law enforcement officials from 485 state and local law enforcement agencies who have written 2504 police books. A hyper-realistic crime story, JOHN RAVEN BEAU provides an intimate look into the beleaguered NOPD Homicide Division, a story that begins in the French Quarter and ends in a swamp, all within the city limits of America’s eternal city, a city that cannot be destroyed – New Orleans. A second Beau novel was released in 2013 – CITY OF SECRETS. Books by O’Neil De Noux (all available as eBooks and trade paperbacks). Go to www.oneildenoux.net for links.

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      The Flying Lady Diner - O'Neil De Noux

      Cover Art Copyright 2011 David Miller

      The Flying Lady Diner

      by Debra Gray De Noux & O’Neil De Noux

      Copyright 2011 Debra Gray De Noux & O’Neil De Noux

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      Ominous clouds hover over Lake Borgne as I ease my new gray, two-door ’48 Plymouth Business Coupe away from New Orleans along blacktopped Highway 90. The gray-brown lake water is curled into small white caps as a weather system moves in from the Gulf of Mexico. A typical summer rainstorm is moving in to drench the coast as I drive eastward toward the piney woods of Mississippi. I can smell the rain in the air, damp and salty like the marshes to my right.

      I downshift as I approach the narrow bridge across The Rigolets pass separating Lake Borgne from Lake Pontchartrain. A woody station-wagon passes the other way. It’s filled with kids, one who sticks his tongue out at me.

      This should be an easy day’s work. Breeze over to the coast, do a little snooping around, earn my forty bucks a day, plus mileage and expenses and report back how I couldn’t find the missing son. I plan to put a move on the distraught mother and slip it to her. My kinda woman. Lonely widow with an oversize bustline and nice firm gams.

      The marsh turns into swampland as I approach Pearl River, cypress trees dripping Spanish moss, towering oaks, also draped in moss.

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