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...

A comic mystery featuring Lovejoy, a crooked antique dealer, as he investigates the murder of a friend who owned a sex museum. By the author of The Sin Within Her Smile.

In the world of antiques there is one great remaining scam - to rob the British Museum. When Lovejoy is employed as an antiques advisor on a film set, the murder, mayhem and double-crossing are not confined to the film.

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.