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Copyright 1992 O’Neil De Noux
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CRESCENT CITY KILLS is a work of fiction. The incidents and characters described herein are a product of the author’s imagination and are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced by any means, electronic, mechanical, or otherwise, without the written permission of the copyright holder.
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First Printing 1992
Second Printing 2013
“She may be called Big Easy, but there was nothing easy about New Orleans, especially her whores.”
from The Big Kiss
by the author
CRESCENT CITY KILLS
1. Lower Coast
2. Rosa Park
3. Baronne Street
4. Camp Street
5. Lower Garden District
6. Terpsichore Street
7. St. Thomas Project
8. Nuns Street
9. The Batture
10. Constance Street
11. Melpomene Street
12. Conery Street
13. Euterpe Street
14. South Broad
15. Erato Street
16. South Saratoga
17. Simon Bolivar Avenue
18. Hollywood Walk
New Orleans is an island with Lake Pontchartrain to the north, the Mississippi River to the south, the Rigolets narrows and Lake Borgne to the east and the Bonnet Carre Spillway to the west, it is completely surrounded by water. It is also the only major American city that is mostly below sea level. Therefore, it is encircled by a system of levees. With seasonal rainfall affecting water levels, a portion of land usually exists between the levees and the water’s edge. This land is called a batture. It is pronounced ‘bat-chur’, with the emphasis on the first syllable. Batture means ‘sandbar’ in French.