THE JUDAS PAIR

Lovejoy knows that the legendary Judas Pair of flintlock pistols are just that - a legend. Or are they? By the time he finds out the truth, two people are dead, and Lovejoy has to pull a nifty scam to avoid the same fate. First in the Lovejoy series.

GOLD BY GEMINI (UK title: Gold from Gemini)

THE GRAIL TREE

SPEND GAME

THE VATICAN RIP

In this fast-paced and witty mystery, Lovejoy is asked to recover a family heirloom. Unfortunately, the Chippendale table in question now sits in the Vatican. Though 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.

FIREFLY GADROON

Lovejoy - unscrupulous conniver, feckless lecher, and more important, gifted visionary who loves beautiful antiques more than life itself - marshals all of his diverse skills to revenge the murder of an old friend. Jonathan Gash's entertaining expertise covers everything from Queen Anne baby walkers and stumpwork boxes to the ultimate antique: the hand-hammered silver Reverse Gadroon. This bawdy fast-paced adventure - in which the all-time scamp must confront an international ring of antiques smugglers and murderers - is an entertaining delight from start to finish.

THE SLEEPERS OF ERIN

THE GONDOLA SCAM

Connoisseur of antiques, rhapsodizer of women, and all-around scamp, Lovejoy is hired by a millionaire collector to "rescue" every art treasure in Venice before the fabled city sinks into the sea. His winning ways, flexible ethics, and resourceful chicanery are put to a vigorous test by the murderous men and dangerous women who cross his gondola's path.

PEARLHANGER

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.

THE TARTAN SELL (UK Title: The Tartan Ringers)

MOONSPENDER

Lovejoy doesn't mind an occasional take, but the wholesale theft of national treasures is something else. So when "moonspenders" - antiques poachers with hi-tech metal detectors - start digging up his native East Anglia's ancient treasures, Lovejoy takes a stand.

JADE WOMAN

Lovejoy, a disreputable antiques dealer, connoisseur of women, and our hero, falls into the middle of a worldwide antique-trading scam and a ruthless Chinese crime syndicate.

THE VERY LAST GAMBADO

Lovejoy returns to East Anglia to work as an antique consultant for a movie about a museum robbery. But soon, Lovejoy becomes the center of a vicious web of theft, murder and disappearances and must use all his wits to come out live.

THE GREAT CALIFORNIA GAME

Roguish antiques expert Lovejoy takes on America for the first time in this new mystery from the author of The Very Last Gambado and The Jade Woman. Illegally in America, Lovejoy is trying to lay low when his unerring instinct for the fake leads him to "The Great California Game", a highly illicit enterprise that involves gambling, antiques, evangelical conmen - and cold-blooded murder.

THE LIES OF FAIR LADIES

Antique expert Lovejoy is back, and this time his reputation needs restoring when he gets caught in a web of corruption - and murder. With two dead bodies and the very real feeling that his may be the next, Lovejoy enters the center of a long-simmering plot for deadly revenge.

PAID AND LOVING EYES

Lovejoy enters the illicit world of underground antiques when he is summoned by a shady underworld figure to judge a competition involving an antique vase. His verdict, however, sets off a chain of suspicious happenings in the antiques community - including murder - and Lovejoy soon realizes he has stumbled onto an international ring of crime. Encountering treasure troves of genuine and fake antiques, a covert KGB-like antiques organization, and a variety of beautiful women, Lovejoy juggles his love of precious objects with his desire to stay alive.

THE SIN WITHIN HER SMILE

The antiques world's roguish dealer is back in The Sin Within Her Smile - his most perilous scam to date. When Lovejoy himself is put on the block among marmalades and lawnmowers at a charity auction and billed as "Slave for a Day" - the bidding soars. To Lovejoy's alarm, two rich women vie for his services, the winner paying an outrageous sum. Lovejoy speculates nervously on what the luscious mystery woman in the pale blue chiffon could possibly want from him. He should have known. Through the mysterious woman in blue, he's soon embroiled in a scam involving Celtic gold finds. But the joke turns deadly earnest when an overinquisitive friend is found murdered. Cutting and running looks like Lovejoy's best bet, and when he's promised a priceless artifact in payment for a trip to Wales, he leaps at the opportunity. As Lovejoy sets out on his journey, the irony of his situation slowly dawns on him - his fellow travelers are those same mental patients on whose behalf he was auctioned! But the more time he spends with them - and with the townspeople - the more he realizes "sanity" is a relative term. Studded with antiques discoveries and overtures from the opposite sex, this might have been the trip of a lifetime. But when the corpses begin to pile up, Lovejoy realizes it could be his last trip ever. . . .

THE GRACE IN OLDER WOMEN

The latest novel featuring Lovejoy, in which the roguish but lovable antiques dealer finds himself forced against his will by the town magistrate to help with the furtherance of a Pretender's claim to America.

THE POSSESSIONS OF A LADY

High-stakes antiques dealer Lovejoy is coming off an unsuccessful liaison wit rich fashion-plate when he finds himself choosing between helping a friend f a missing seventeen-year-old girl, or exploring a mysterious invitation found in a borrowed tuxedo.

THE RICH AND THE PROFANE

It could only happen to Lovejoy. One minute a beautiful young girl is asking him how to steal a cheap necklace; the next he's jetting of to the Channel Isles, organizing "The Gamble of the Century" - and avenging a murder.

A RAG, A BONE AND A HANK OF HAIR

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.

EVERY LAST CENT

The latest adventure from Lovejoy: the irrepressible antique hunter, lothario and out-and-out conman. Lovejoy is in serious trouble. For it appears that a local lad known as Mortimer shares his extraordinary talent for distinguishing genuine antiques from fake. Although perhaps that's not so surprising - as it is rumoured that Mortimer is Lovejoy's son...But there is one big difference between 'father' and 'son' - Mortimer's painful honesty, which is ruining the local antiques trade. And the dealers blame Lovejoy. Lovejoy decides to use his own gift to assemble a mass of antiques - with any luck he might be able to bargain his way out. But when he persuades one of his favourite ladies, the sculptress Bernicka, to help him tragedy strikes. And now Lovejoy is running scared. Particularly when the death toll around him starts to mount...

DIFFERENT WOMEN DANCING

Clare and Bonn are witnesses to Leonard Mostern's death in a seemingly innocent RTA. But Clare begins to suspect that Mostern's death is no accident and that her husband is involved. She hires Bonn, a gigolo, to help her investigate and is soon pulled into the underworld in which he moves.

PREY DANCING

Dr Clare Burtonall has promised to pass on a message from a patient who has died of AIDS. But she has no address, all she knows is that Jase "works at the wharf with pollen". Unfortunately Jase is a weapons man for a gang of yardies, and blames Clare for the death.

DIE DANCING

In Jonathan Gash's urban medical thriller. Dr Clare Burtonall is unwittingly pulled into Manchester's criminal underworld by her lover Bonn, and the Agency for which he works - as a gigolo... At the Palais Rocco Dr Clare Burtonall is taking dancing lessons with her lover Bonn, hired from the Pleases Escort Agency. The vibrant dancehall is a world away from the disused garage across town in which Terence Dulworth is facing a terrifying death. Or is it? For Dulworth, aka Dulsie, was a 'fixer' for important businessmen of the city, including Clare's ex-husband Clifford. A fact not lost on Detective Inspector Hassell, leading the murder investigation. Added to this Clare has recently set up a new medical practice unaware that her sponsor is the Pleases Agency. And it is certainly a dangerous time to be linked with them. For Dulsie's slaying and repeated death threats against Zen, one of Bonn's associates, have left the Agency on red alert. If Zen is also murdered, retribution will be swift...

BONE DANCING

The latest in the series featuring Dr Clare Burtonall and male escort Bonn. The death of one of the syndicate's street girls arouses Clare's suspicions and the disappearance of a young boy from a local children's home puts Martina on edge. Plus Clare's way of life is under threat - will Bonn provide her with the support she needs?