The Final Casebook of Mortimer Grimm

by Lex H. Jones

London, 1887. Disgraced private detective Chester Harkins, has narrowly escaped a murder charge, forcing him to change his life radically. After spending years trying to block his psychic ability taking opium, he now embraces it. Harkins partners with Mortimer Grimm, the ghost of an occult detective whose last case ended his life. In return for Harkins’ promise that he will help Grimm solve his final case, Grimm agrees to show Harkins the hidden side to London and the world.
Harkins and Grimm, operating from the Whitechapel district of London’s east end, take on cases with a distinctly supernatural twist: ghosts, werewolves, Hellish creatures and curses from beyond the grave. Whilst Harkins relishes every new experience, Grimm does his utmost to make sure Harkins’ reckless nature doesn’t get him killed in the process. Passion overtakes reason in the form of Maria Rosen, a Romany medium who is in equal parts the most fascinating and most dangerous person Harkins has ever met. Despite Grimm’s warnings to the contrary, Harkins enters into a relationship with Maria which will alter the course of his life even further.
When Grimm’s murderer inevitably resurfaces, Harkins stands side by side with his partner in a final showdown with a demonic creature on the fog-shrouded streets of Whitechapel. The events of that night have lasting effects that take Harkins’ life in a direction he could never have expected.

593 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Lex Jones was born and raised in Sheffield, north England, in 1985. A keen writer from a young age, he was always fascinated with the supernatural and is obsessed with stories. He loves films, books, theatre, videogames, graphic novels, anything with a good story that captures the imagination. His books tend to have a supernatural (or at least 'unusual') undercurrent, as this moves them away from the more boring aspects of real life.