The Case of the Missing Sapphire

By Elizabeth Bent

This is the fourth story in the comedy series featuring Canadian superspies Agent Diamond and Charming Guy. In this tale, Agent Diamond is pressed into catsitting an extremely difficult cat, and manages to solve a crime while doing so. This story was written and dedicated to a donor as a reward for a crowdfunding campaign I conducted in 2014, aiming at raising funds for a cancer research project. The work for the project is still ongoing, and I am grateful to all donors for their assistance.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Elizabeth Bent
• Release date: Feb 7, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310087011

Elizabeth Bent

Elizabeth Bent has a PhD in soil microbiology and has worked as a postdoctoral researcher from 2001-2020. Currently she is consulting, helping businesses and labs write grants. Her fiction writing reflects both her whimsical sense of humor and her interest in the human psyche. She has written one science fiction novel, Infinity, and two science fiction novellas, Anagama and Perigee (all three still to be published; Perigee was in print but was removed from publication for an in-progress cover redesign) and is currently working on several other novels. She also writes comedy, fantasy and science fiction short stories.

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The Adventures of Agent Diamond and Charming Guy:

The Case of the Missing Sapphire

A short story by Elizabeth Bent

Published by Elizabeth Bent at Smashwords

Copyright 2015 Elizabeth Bent

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Acknowledgements

This story was partially written in 2003, as part of a novel I no longer wish to publish (all the sections dealing with the destructiveness of Tinkles the cat come from this manuscript). In 2014 I conducted a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for a research project dealing with an interesting bacterium that has activity against lymphoma (cancer) in mice (this project is described at www.gut-bacteria.com). One of the rewards was a dedication on a short story. This story is therefore dedicated to my brother-in-law Marvin Ellin, as well as to the memory of my cat Tigger (upon whom Tinkles is based) and, as always, my Muse.

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