A Stick of Doublemint

On a warm San Francisco night, an innocent young woman is gunned down during a gang-related drive-by shooting. The overworked police department have no leads and no suspects, and seemingly little interest in pursuing yet another case involving ongoing gang violence. Then those involved in the shooting start turning up dead, with a stick of Doublemint gum in hand. What does it mean, and who’s responsible?

A new detective is assigned to the case, and he quickly realizes he’s going to need help to solve it, so turns to old friends, Katy Green and Johnny Cato, now part of a successful private investigation firm!

So begins a race against the clock to stop further murders and to discover the perpetrator. Can the investigating duo, dubbed by newspapers as “Green Hornet and Cato” solve this latest case of the vigilante killings, or will the culprit continue to bloody the city?

And then continue the shocking case files of Sacramento's "Green Hornet and Cato" with these other releases:

• The Crime Files of Katy Green #1: Double Jack (a novella)

• The Crime Files of Katy Green #2: Shadow of the Dark Angel

• The Crime Files of Katy Green #3: Deathflash

• The Crime Files of Katy Green #4: A Stick of Doublemint

Gene O’Neill has seen over 175 of his stories and novellas published, several also reprinted in France, Spain, and Russia. Some of these stories have been collected in GHOST SPIRITS, COMPUTERS & WORLD MACHINES; THE GRAND STRUGGLE; IN DARK CORNERS; DANCE OF THE BLUE LADY; THE HITCHHIKING EFFECT; and LETHAL BIRDS. In addition, he’s published six novels.



Gene has been a Bram Stoker Award® finalist twelve times. In 2010 TASTE OF TENDERLOIN won the haunted house for collection, and in 2012 THE BLUE HERON won for Long Fiction. Upcoming in 2017 are the four trade paperback versions of the CAL WILD CHRONICLES from Written Backwards Press, a number of short stories, and a novelette. A long novel, THE WHITE PLAGUE CHRONICLES, is a work in progress, parts to an interested publisher.



Gene lives in the Napa Valley with his wife, Kay. He has two grown children, Gavin, who lives in Oakland, and Kaydee who lives in Carlsbad and rides herd on his two grandchildren, Fiona and TJ.



When he isn’t writing or visiting grandchildren, Gene likes to read good fiction or watch sports—all of them, especially boxing.