Author Biff Mitchell is looking for someone to kill – and the victim has to bid at eBay for the honor of being done in.
Mitchell is looking for a murder victim for his next novel, "Murder by Burger." The auction description explains the reason for the eBay auction: "Why am I doing this? Because I need the money in order to finish the novel. It's taken me over a year to write the first 63 pages and I need to raise enough money so that I can work fulltime on this novel."
Along with appearing in the novel, the winning bidder will appear in the acknowledgements when the novel is published and will receive an autographed copy with a personalized note. "I figure," said Mitchell, "something like: thanks for letting me kill ya. But I'm not sure what the rules of conduct are on this sort of thing."
Four bidders pushed the auction to $152.50 as of Wednesday evening, but the reserve price had not yet been met. The auction ends October 13.
