Lovejoy At Large - Lovejoy Author:Jonathan Gash An Omnibus Featuring Spend Game, Vatican Rip, and Tartan Ringers (aka Tartan Sell) — Vatican Rip — Lovejoy goes to Rome to steal an antique table ... from the Pope! — Lovejoy, that witty rogue with a genius for antiques, is ask to recover a family heirloom. Unfortunately the Chippendale table in question now sits in the Vatican. Th... more »ough matters of protocol, a brutal murder, and several romantic entanglements slow his progress, Lovejoy once again triumphs, finding his way to a most ingenious solution.
Spend Game
On a dark and rainy night, amorous antiques dealer Lovejoy and his lady of the moment witness a car being forced off the road and over an embankment; the mortally injured driver turns out to be Leckie, a fellow antiques dealer and old army chum. Lovejoy's search for the villains is spiced with the promise of a valuable cache of antiques hidden somewhere at the end of the line.
Tartan Ringers (aka Tartan Sell)
Maybe it's because he's so good with fakes and women and so bad with taxes, but Lovejoy's antiques business is always getting him in trouble with the law.
This time it starts with a bureau that he ordered from Scotland. It's supposed to be fake, but when the truck driver is killed and the bureau turns out to have been real, Lovejoy sets out for Scotland to find out what's going on. Soon he's mixed up with the McGunn clan and their beautiful leader, the wheelchair-bound Miss Elaine -- and he's pulling off the biggest scam of his career.« less