User blog comment:Razorgirl/Remastered Skyrim (Observations and Thoughts)/@comment-1746153-20161230120023/@comment-842519-20161231050011

If you sell the amulet to Calixto, you can then loot it from his dead corpse and it won't get stuck.

I prefer not to accuse the Jarl's Court Mage of being a serial killer until I've been able to talk to him about it first. But the quest is REALLY particular about exactly when you can do that. I wonder if people mistake "poorly written quest that is really finnicky" with "it's bugged".

I can't remember the specifics of the issues I encountered with this play through, sadly. But I know I couldn't talk to anyone about it, and so I left to do other things, and then it was all OK. Very strange. 😳