Right, I need to explain something here, lest you other users of Good Reads think I am some sort of ne'er-do-well. I have rated this book one star higher than the last Lovejoy escapade that I read. In the review for that one I mentioned that, aside from a thought about it in paragraph two, Lovejo...
One of the most likable rogues in mystery history. The Bitish-Roman coins had been around for centuries, so when they disappear from a local museum, Lovejoy has a more than passing interest in finding them. Abandoning his usual pursuits of good buys and willing women, Lovejoy finds himself in the...
In this fast-paced and witty mystery, Lovejoy is asked to recover a family heirloom. Unfortunately, the Chippendale table in question now sits in the Vatican. Though matters of protocol, a brutal murder, and several romantic entanglements slow his progress, Lovejoy once again triumphs, finding hi...
Lovejoy, the brilliant, irredeemably scruffy antiques dealers, is back for another witty caper. When Lovejoy's crony Tryer ends up dead in the local boating bond, with his mobile "Sex Museum" torched, Lovejoy is certain that this incident somehow ties in with the remote, dying village of Fenstone...
On a dark and rainy night, amorous antiques dealer Lovejoy and his lady of the moment witness a car being forced off the road and over an embankment; the mortally injured driver turns out to be Leckie, a fellow antiques dealer and old army chum. Lovejoy's search for the villains is spiced with th...
Ah, Lovejoy ... he's always after women and antiques and destined to screw up at both. Why women run after him is beyond me--I'm a woman and see no attraction (and the book Lovejoy sees nothing wrong in "clouting" them, which is awful). However, Lovejoy is always *interesting*--an over-the-top, s...
Over the years, there has been a lot in the news about the abuse suffered by children in the care of the church, particularly the Catholic Church. After years of such abuse, many parts of the church have since offered apologies and reparation. Something like this isn't necessarily the kind of thi...
This is the first of, the English mystery series. 'Lovejoy' by Jonathan Gash. It's also the first I've read of the series. A series that is centered around the antique auction trade. If a reader doesn't care for that atmosphere they will hate this book.I'd say a quarter of the book details the bu...
A surprising book from this well-known novelist. It is not really a murder mystery or even an investigation but a curious mix of oriental magic and crime syndicates during a time of great cultural and historical change as HongKong is handed back to China. It is told from the point of view of a ...
"Cash's Lovejoy, whose numerous escapades have earned him an army of delighted followers, is never completely out of trouble. But in Lovejoy's own world, there are those who have it in for the brash antiques dealer: his dealer, competitors, his customers, numerous delightful women (and sometimes ...
Lovejoy's search for a missing painting and a missing friend -- Gesso the cat burglar -- takes him on a wild adventure to the Channel Islands. He hopes to keep a low profile by masquerading as Jonno Rant, an island local, but that plan backfires when the local police start to keep tabs on him and...
Lovejoy's fling with a rich and adulterous fashion plate ends when she has him bounced from her show. He's caused an embarrassing ruckus by loudly protesting a dress sewn from a slashed-up (extremely valuable!) nineteenth-century Turkish carpet. He's broke again, homeless, and, to make matters wo...
I discovered the books on Lovejoy a long time ago, did find a few in my local 2nd hand bookstore and found I rather liked them. Not unlike my likes for a tv show like "Bargain Hunt"and the "Antique roadshow". That said I did return to the books again when I saw the episodes of Lovejoy with Ian Mc...
Lovejoy is a “divvy” (presumably from “diviner”), a person who can just feel if an antique is genuine by standing near it. This is a great help in his career as an antiques dealer. But just because he’s got a gift of his own doesn’t mean he believes in anything else supernatural. So he’s a bit pu...
Her neffie estate manager's job. I needed a manager of my own, not more labors. I told him well done and, knackered as I was, went for Toffee and started out to Ramparts Comer, home of our village's resident writer. He'd sent Ben Cox. Billiam—his idea of a Christian name, nobody else's—lives in...
'Two." "And thirty thousand inhabitants." "Less than a hundred souls." Her eyes were brimming now, hers or mine. "I'm so sorry, darling." The canal runs straight from the landing stage into the heart of what is left of Torcello's great square. Now it's not even a village green. The great stone ar...
She accepted with alacrity. She had regular clients there. And I sincerely honestly don’t hint at a Lincoln clergyman, or the iniquitous bilge written about cathedral staff in the Church Times. She drove. I looked at her, suddenly realising I didn’t know her at all. Like I...
And ‘have’ in any way you like? It used to be my big favourite until matters got out of hand, over this bird called Wilhelmina. She was a drama student and lived on natural earth-friendly pulses, which means beans. It ended in tragedy when, in the throes of orgasm, somebody (she claimed it was me...
I got the “Where did you get to? We looked high and low.” I said I’d decided to get lost and managed to get a lift from a lady. They were thrilled. Millicent laughed, “Anything to get out of repaying me for that ticket!” I began to suss out nearby tables. I’m hopeless at s...
And," she added brightly, "you can say you're sorry, Lovejoy. Think how nice . . ."Now I'd got a blinding headache. "Can I have that drink, please, Bea? And an aspirin?"Later I left Beatrice's and phoned Lydia from Charley's, the pub next door. This local nickname means any pub called the Black B...
Hepplewhite was the tallboy king; though this was a feeble Edwardian copy, nicely aged. You separate the two sets. The top set consists of three single drawers plus the top level of two matching smaller drawers. We had a table top spare—the Wittwoode vannies had used it to off-load the smaller it...
: ur late Only a split second, he typed, Jim S. Very pleasant. I hope I can introduce you both some day. You’ll like him. : get on wi it the 1st q guz in 2 days Yes. Have I to write it here? : less u wont me 2 gess Here goes then: Question One: What...