Read Series: Lovejoy
by Author Jonathan Gash
Pearlhanger (1986)
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...
Firefly Gadroon (1985)
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...
The Possessions of a Lady (1997)
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...
The Rich and the Profane (2000)
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...
The Ten Word Game (2004)
"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 ...
The Judas Pair (1977)
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...
The Grail Tree (1988)
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...
Spend Game (1982)
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...
The Grace in Older Women (1996)
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...
The Vatican Rip (1983)
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...
Gold by Gemini (1988)
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...
The Sleepers of Erin (1984)
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...