She Tried To Sit On My Lap While I Was Standing Up
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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 the edge of Audubon Park is not hard, pleasant actually as the daughter puts on a strip show in her bedroom window. But who’s that hiding in the bushes?
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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She Tried To Sit On My Lap While I Was Standing Up - O'Neil De Noux
Cover Art Copyright 2011 O’Neil De Noux
Copyright 2011 O’Neil De Noux
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She Tried To Sit On My Lap
While I Was Standing Up
Debra Gray De Noux and O’Neil De Noux
Gonzales parked his gray Saab 900S on the Audubon Park side of Walnut Street and checked the address in his notes. He’d written, Five p.m. Frank Cooper. 510 Walnut. Bodyguard Case.
He looked across the street at a rambling Spanish Mission house nestled between a blue Victorian and a cream-colored Greek Revival home. The red numerals 510 stood out on the white stucco wall of the mission house.
Gonzales turned off the ignition and climbed out into the super-heated air of late summer New Orleans. He reached back in and pulled out his light-weight linen jacket and tucked his note pad inside. He locked the car and put the jacket on as he crossed Walnut.
A warm breeze, smelling of freshly cut grass, rose behind him. Filtering through the old oaks of Audubon Park, the breeze was of little comfort with the temperature and humidity both nearing triple digits. Gonzales stopped on the sidewalk and ran his fingers through his straight brown hair and wiped sweat off his brow.
The mission house looked out of place among the prissy Victorians and elegant Greek Revival homes along Walnut. One story in front with a two-story living area in back, the house had a front door with a round top under a front gallery supported by six wide arches. He followed the twisting rock walkway up to the front door and rang the bell. A black man in a black suit answered. Gonzales passed him a business card. The man