Jonathan Gash

A mystery in the long-running series featuring the well-known antiques "divvy" and general bad boy, Lovejoy. Lovejoy cannot be said to have clean hands and a pure heart, flitting bee-like as he does from one flower of womanhood to the next, and straining the truth when necessary. But, when it comes to the relics of history, be it a silver tea service or the gold buttons from Lord Nelson's second-best uniform coat, he cannot be topped. In Jonathans...

Released from jail on condition that he join the elegant Laura Moon's speed-dating agency, a reluctant Lovejoy is finagled into a temporary marriage of convenience to help the millionaire divorcée track down her dangerous former husband.

Lovejoy, in order to avoid the police and get his hands on more antiques, hurries off to Scotland after a driver is murdered while making a delivery to him.

"A Joan Kahn book." Lovejoy wakes up in Hong Kong and realizes he's been robbed of everything --his passport, traveler's checks, and driver's license, and then he sees a woman in the crowd, the Jade Woman.

After fleeing from Hong Kong, Lovejoy finds himself tending bar in New York where he is drawn into an illicit antiques scam and a gambling tournament with deadly stakes.