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Lucien Caye Private Eye
New Orleans Confidential
Come prowl the lonely, sometimes violent streets of America's most exotic city, the city that care forgot, New Orleans, with a lone-wolf private eye named Lucien Caye. Caye lives and works in the run-down New Orleans French Quarter of the late 1940s. Women float in and out of Caye's life, like the alluring brunette who wants him to bodyguard her while she poses for sexy pictures. Murder is often the name of the game and Caye sometimes leaves town for the gulf coast or the swamps of southern Louisiana in pursuit of the truth, usually aiding a pretty woman in need of help, in more ways than one. Unfortunately, the truth is often ugly, often dangerous and usually resides on the loneliest part of town.
216 pages, Hardcover
First published October 31, 2005
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O'Neil De Noux
166 books12 followersO'Neil Paul De Noux was born on 29 November 1950 in New Orleans.
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July 22, 2015
Good collection of shorts.
This is a collection of short stories. That said it is a little tough to rate/review as it is technically several different pieces in one collection. The stores are entertaining, move well, and the characters are fun if at times predictable. Having family from Louisiana and being a frequent visitor to New Orleans which is a cultural second home, I bought this book because of the setting. Nola is a perfect setting, exotic, old, devil may care and Denoux does it very very well. Only criticisms are his tendency to get too far into the erotica end of the spectrum for my taste and that because this is a collection of shorts you end up reading the repetitive character development lines over and over again in each story so it gets a bit redundant that the main doesn't wear hats and why, that he served in Europe in the war and where, etc. otherwise it's completely entertaining which is the point of this genre.
This is a collection of short stories. That said it is a little tough to rate/review as it is technically several different pieces in one collection. The stores are entertaining, move well, and the characters are fun if at times predictable. Having family from Louisiana and being a frequent visitor to New Orleans which is a cultural second home, I bought this book because of the setting. Nola is a perfect setting, exotic, old, devil may care and Denoux does it very very well. Only criticisms are his tendency to get too far into the erotica end of the spectrum for my taste and that because this is a collection of shorts you end up reading the repetitive character development lines over and over again in each story so it gets a bit redundant that the main doesn't wear hats and why, that he served in Europe in the war and where, etc. otherwise it's completely entertaining which is the point of this genre.
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