The Necromancer's Faire

By Mortimer Jackson

It is said that there is no rest for the wicked. This, as it happens, is true. Just as Sebastian Grimm, a necromancer who hunts down wicked people all the time with the help of his friend and private investigator, John King. Today, the necromancer's adventure takes him to an annual Renaissance festival, where he must stop yet another murder from taking place.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mortimer Jackson
• Release date: Dec 26, 2011

Mortimer Jackson

Mortimer Jackson is a self-published author living in the underbellies of suburban California, where as a novelist he writes in the hopes of one day joining the ranks of the overrated.

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The Necromancer’s Faire

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Mortimer Jackson

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Copyright 2011 The Morning Dread

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The Necromancer’s Faire

Chapter 1

The Necromancer’s Renaissance

Dear reader, to those among you who would claim that history never repeats itself, I would ask that you observe the annual Renaissance Festival, an olden tradition of even older times that occurs at least once every year.

Sebastian Grimm was called upon by private investigator and partner John King, in order to assist in preventing an impending murder from taking place. For you see dear reader, even in this, history had repeated itself.

Precisely one year ago from today, on the Renaissance Festival of the year before, a vicious murder had taken place just as it had the year before that. First, there was James McCow, a man who had frequented the event until he was stabbed in the heart. After him, Patrick Furlow, a staff of the festival who served as a vendor for the Food and Shoppe. He was killed by way of strangulation.

Fearing that another death was on their hands, the supervisor of the festival paid private investigator John King in order to ensure that this trend would not continue. His job as such was to discover the identity of the killer, and put an end to what newspapers were calling the Renaissance murders, once and for all.

This was not a typical job for the private investigator. And as such, there was only so much he knew to do. But the money was good, and the media attention even better for his career. And assuming that neither of this was enough, John King also had the support of a man who could speak to the dead. This, so that even if he failed to identify the killer in time, the victim would.

"I don’t think that my being here is giving you the right