Jonathan Gash
Author
Series
Lovejoy ; 23
Language
English
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Description
Lovejoy finds himself shanghaied aboard a luxurious cruise ship en route to Russia and a prisoner of a group of schemers who hope to use his talents to steal Russia's legendary "amber room" and ransom it back in Great Britain.
Author
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Language
English
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Description
KwayFay was once a Cockraoch Child’, a homeless scavenger on Hong Kong’s waterfronts. Now she lives in a squatter shack on the mountain slopes, and commutes daily to her job as a lowly office clerk. She survives by paying bribes if she has to, and keeping silent when abused. Her only ally is Grandmother’s Ghost.
There is a tense, pregnant feel to Hong Kong, for this is the time just before the Handover, when the People’s
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Language
English
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Description
For antiques dealer Lovejoy a get-out-of-jail-free card in the hands of a beautiful woman proves too tempting to pass up. Naturally there's a catch. Forced to put his antiques knowledge to work for a mysterious secret society Lovejoy soon finds himself entering a marriage of convenience - cover for his part in the perfect robbery. As events spiral out of control and the bodies stack up, not even his accomplice Tinker and apprentice Lydia can get Lovejoy...
4) Pearlhanger
Author
Language
English
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Description
Looking for a missing husband is not usually Lovejoy's cup of tea, but this missing husband happens to be an antiques dealer. As usual the police are less than tolerant of Lovejoy's motives and methods - and, as usual, Lovejoy uses his charm, wit, and a little scam of his own to see that justice triumphs.
13) The Judas pair
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1977]
Language
English
Description
When Lovejoy, a zealous collector of antique firearms, learns that the legendary set of pistols the "Judas Pair" actually exist, he determines to own them at all costs.
16) The tartan sell
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
Lovejoy, in order to avoid the police and get his hands on more antiques, hurries off to Scotland after a driver is murdered while making a delivery to him.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
While bartending at an elegant dinner party in New York, Lovejoy reveals his knowledge of antiques and is drawn into an illegal antiques scam involving extortion, a protection racket, con artists, and beautiful women. After a fellow bartender is killed in a mysterious hit-and-run accident, Lovejoy embarks on a desperate trip across America, hoping to raise money from unethical antiques dealers and gain control of the scam. From the museums of New...
19) The gondola scam
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
Whilst wondering why certain dealers are bidding themselves into poverty for a fake painting, Lovejoy is invited to check whether antiques being secretly lifted from Venice are genuine. The offer is too good to refuse, but it involves him with a particularly ugly bunch of crooks.