- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Pan Books; New edition edition (9 Jun 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0330373773
- ISBN-13: 978-0330373777
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 436,731 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Lovejoy is not fan of London - in fact he avoids it at all costs. But as a favour he agrees to go to find out who has been passing off fake gemstones. But when he visits his old friends, Colette and Arthur, he is in for a dreadful surprise.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Lovejoy is back and out to get a German who conned two of his antique dealers out of everything they owned in the new Jonathan Gash paperback.
As usual it takes a while to adjust to Gash's style of writing and Lovejoys strange expressions, but it's not long before he's up to his neck in problems to do with antiques and women. The problem with this novel is that it takes about the first fifty pages to get going, but when it does it becomes a rollercoaster of a novel that keeps you reading to the last page.
I only wish that Pan, or another publisher, would republish the 19 Lovejoy novels currently out of print.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A bit long-winded and suffers from dodgy attention span by the narrator, but on the whole, chatty and entertaining, not to mention devious
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
An interesting mystery
23 Mar 2000
Format:Hardcover
If Lovejoy had to choose between an antique and a beautiful caring woman, he would choose the former, as he loves to collect old-fashion items. Legalities or a cash shortfall fail to stop Lovejoy from the pleasure of obtaining an antique.
Dosh Callaghan hires Lovejoy to find out who substituted a shipment of padpas (precious gems) for tsavorite (a semi-precious but worthless stone). Lovejoy travels to London where he goes to visit his cronies Colette and Arthur Goldhorn, owners of a King's Road antique store. However, he learns that Arthur died and Dieter Gluck owns the store and the Goldhorn ancestral home.
Colette lives on the streets as a bag lady working for her former lover Gluck. Lovejoy decides to right the wrong perpetrated by Gluck. He assembles a squad of eccentric charcaters to help him with his crazy scheme to sting a con artist. However, a joker appears when Lovejoy meets Colette's son Mortimer who bears a resemblance to Lovejoy and has the same gift of knowing a fake from a genuine article.
The twenty-first Lovejoy mystery remains as droll, witty, and entertaining as the previous score of novels. Although the street slang spoken by some of the charcaters initially distracts from the story line, the audience quickly adjusts and feels they are wandering along the back streets of London. The hero knows his antiques and educates the reader even if it is from the wrong side of the law. Lovejoy remains a likable chap who still schemes and plots in a Sergeant Bilko (TV show not the movie) sort of amiable way.
Harriet Klausner
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Lovejoy (and Gash) Improve with Age
5 Feb 2001
Format:Hardcover
I hope Jonathan Gash is not peaking, because this is certainly his best Lovejoy novel. As a fan, I have read all of them and although the progression has been doubtful at times, I believe this auther has indeed come into his own with this effort. Lovejoy remains the loveable scallywag antiques divy. The combination of love of antiques, women, scams, money and nosh present this wonderful character at his best. Yes, most of the time, Lovejoy is on the wrong side of the law and may be scamming his friends; however, this story reaffirms the "heart of gold" we know is lurking within. He sets out to save a woman (with whom he made "smiles") and her son, taken to the cleaners by an antiques dealer even more unscrupulous than Lovejoy. He accomplishes his goals with usual bungling and remains somewhat confused to the end, but the reader is on Lovejoy's side the whole time. And, of course, there is the question, "Is Mortimer Lovejoy's love child?" You decide. Gash presents a unique view of England, the antiques trade and a delightful read from every angle.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
More joy with Lovejoy
15 Aug 2007
Format:Paperback
Lovejoy is hired to find out who has stolen the gems of an old friend and replaced them with duds. The padpas, a type of yellow-pinkish coloured sapphires, have been replaced by tsavourites, a similar semi precious stone but without the monetary value. Lured back to London by this story, Loveday is horrified to discover that his old friend, Arthur Goldhorn is dead under suspicious circumstances with his son and heir, Mortimer swindled out of his home and inheritance and Arthur's wife (and Lovejoy's former mistress), without her antiques business and turned into a bag lady, on the streets. A handsome, ruthless crook named Dieter Gluck is the perpetrator of all of these misfortunes as he has the looks and charm to fool any female who comes within his reach. The whole book revolves around Lovejoy trying to do the right thing by all of his friends and regaining Mortimer's property and land rights for him. It's full of the usual Lovejoy quirkiness and charm and chock full of unusual characters and snippets of information about antiques and England throughout the centuries. Lovejoy books never fail to amuse me and I can barely wait to get the next one.
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