title: The Case of the Reluctant Agent: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
author:  Tracy Cooper-Posey 
description: Tracy Cooper-Posey's first Sherlock Holmes pastiche, Chronicles of the Last Years, was awarded Best Pastiche by the Sherlock Holmes Soceity and met with widespread praise. Also a national award-winning romance novelist, Cooper-Posey has published e-book bestsellers and teaches over the internet. Born and raised in Australia, she now lives in Edmonton.
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  ## Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  [Begin Reading](../Text/part0002.html#1T142-b15414402b73428e9eb834d7c1bc1cd8)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Note to the Reader](../Text/part0003.html#bm01)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Preview: The Other Woman](../Text/part0004.html#bm02)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [About the Author](../Text/part0006.html#ata01)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  “Do you think he’s dangerous?”
  
  
  “Ron, you mean? Or Cooper? Down, Cooper.” I pushed the Lab’s massive yellow
  paw from my bare leg. With a big-eyed look that meant “just this once,” he
  curled up under my bar stool, nose on my sandal. I loved Cooper. He was the
  only one whose feet were bigger than mine, and he might just have hated Ron as
  much as I did. I took a sip of my ill-advised third glass of Shiraz and looked
  across the bar at Errol. Gave him a “one more” signal.
  
  
  “I know, you mean Ron,” I said to Jess. “And no, he’s not dangerous. He’s just
  a jerk.”
  
  
  “A two-timing, paranoid, self-obsessed moron.” Jess was attempting to fish a
  stubborn green olive from the bottom o