The Lies of Fair Ladies: A Lovejoy Mystery - Softcover

Gash, Jonathan

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9780140176308: The Lies of Fair Ladies: A Lovejoy Mystery

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ISBN 10: 0140176306 ISBN 13: 9780140176308

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1993

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Accused of stealing valuable antiques from a vacant mansion, antique expert Lovejoy investigates and becomes caught up in the activities of two very corrupt dealers. Reprint.

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From Kirkus Reviews:

Irresistible rogue Lovejoy--back home in East Anglia after a stint in the States (The Great California Game, 1991), between sessions with a pet snake and its voluptuous owner, ``making smiles'' (romps in bed) with a talk-show host's wife, and training the mayor's wife, Luna, in the fine art of faking antiques--finds time to query the death of another antique scammer, old Prammie Joe, who may have fallen afoul of the plans of a dollop broker (a storer of stolen goods for ten percent of the resale price). Also afoot are a certain descendant's plans to avenge her family for deaths imposed on it back in 1694 by the Witch-Finder General, which will soon cause Lovejoy to roust the larcenous residents of the Sampney Young Ladies Academy and rescue another antique-dealer chum from a well in a priory. One more will die; the mayor will prove to have a scam of his own; and Lovejoy, of course, will find another, nubile benefactress before all is set to right. Rambunctious, ribald, and, at times, rendered in such idiosyncratic syntax as to be incomprehensible. Crammed with antique lore, historical asides, and verve. -- Copyright �1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From Library Journal:

In this British author's disappointing new work, a muddle of minor characters and colloquialisms fail to disguise the plot's insignificance. The impecunious and womanizing Lovejoy natters and noshes his way through an antiques scam for which police blame him, then finds a crony murdered in a reed-cutter's hut. Nonetheless, Lovejoy shines forth with his usual panache, dedicating some of his chauvinistic time to the mayor's wife--his "apprentice." Strictly for diehard fans, although the Arts & Entertainment Channel's weekly broadcast of Lovejoy , loosely based on the books, may spark some library demand. Previewed in Prepub Alert, 4/1/92.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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