- Paperback: 197 pages
- Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd; New edition edition (20 Mar 1986)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099417308
- ISBN-13: 978-0099417309
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.9 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 167,336 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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.
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This is a thoroughly good read and rich in humour. Life is never dull with Lovejoy nearby. I truly recommend this one - perhaps a tad shorter than his previous novels in the series.
Very well done!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Pace, pace, pace
28 Jun 2001
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Jonathan Gash, Pearlhanger (Penguin, 1985)
Mysteries are like horse races. What pace you get depends more on the country of origin than the type of book. Pearlhanger, the ninth Lovejoy mystery, tries its best to be a hardboiled detective story in the Robert Parker vein (with Lovejoy an antiques dealer instead of a literate chef), but it's foiled by Gash's inveterate Englishness. English mysteries always start out leisurely and then pick up. Not the best way for a hardboiled detective story to start off.
Still, once you're past the slow bits, like most English mysteries, Pearlhanger gets good. The irascible, pejudiced, inveterately Lovejoy and his band of merry misfits are on the trail of a disappeared antiques dealer who doesn't seem to be doing much antique dealing. Once they reach the end of the trail, things pick up and plot twists abound. Unfortunately, reaching the trail takes half the book and a bunch of minor characters (all of whom, you hope, will pop up again later, but they never do except in conversation). The whole thing does come to a satisfactory conclusion, and with a bit faster pacing at first and a little more completeness with minor characters, it would be excellent. As is stands, it's readable enough. ** 1/2
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
A great book.
20 April 1999
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This was my second Lovejoy novel and I loved it. The main character is great and and the mystery excellent. The British slang may be tough at first for some, but after the first chapter you tend to pick it up. I would recomend this book to anyone. Five Stars!
Not Free SF Reader
3 Mar 2008
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Medium Lovejoy.
A message from beyond (not that Lovejoy believes that) has him assisting a woman in one of his usual searches for antique gear of the valuable sort.
Not as much fun are the not very nice people that would like to get rid of the pair.
To get out of this an iffy sting has to be set up at an auction.
A message from beyond (not that Lovejoy believes that) has him assisting a woman in one of his usual searches for antique gear of the valuable sort.
Not as much fun are the not very nice people that would like to get rid of the pair.
To get out of this an iffy sting has to be set up at an auction.
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