A Bad Spell in Yurt
(Daimbert #1)
C. Dale Brittain (1991)

The kingdom of Yurt is the perfect place for someone who graduated from the wizards’ school.  Daimbert, newly hired Royal Wizard of Yurt, senses an evil spell at work. But who could be responsible?

A familiar setting for a rather ordinary story of a Wizard, Demon and Dragon. It’s the writing that keeps you in the story, being more about palace intrigue than an action adventure.

But it is too long at 100k words. Edited down to novella size would have improved the pacing and added to interest for the next in the series.