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Monday, 04 December 2006

BLOG De Noux at http://oneildenoux.blogspot.com/ SHAMUS AWARD WINNER! - The Private Eye Writers of America awarded its prestigious SHAMUS AWARD for BEST SHORT STORY 2007 to O'Neil De Noux for his story THE HEART HAS REASONS (which appeared in ALFRED HITCHCOCK MYSTERY MAGAZINE’s September 2006 Issue). The SHAMUS is given annually to recognize outstanding achievement in private eye fiction. The 26th Annual Shamus Awards were announced at Bouchercon World Mystery Convention in Anchorage, Alaska, on September 28, 2007. THE HEART HAS REASONS features De Noux’s private eye Lucien Caye. ... A Police Investigator, 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 and 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).