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What bliss! Lovejoy is back, in his 21st adventure--and while Jonathan Gash (The Possessions of a Lady, The Rich and the Profane, etc.) might be forgiven if things were getting a bit stale by this point, happily, A Rag, a Bone and a Hank of Hair is anything but dull. This latest adventure sends Lovejoy, an antiques dealer and sometime forger with a gift for sensing genuine articles from fake, trawling the London markets from Camden Passage to Portobello, in order to find out who's passed dud gemstones to Dosh Callaghan. But after stopping to say hello to his old friends Arthur and Colette Goldhorn, he finds that their antiques shop has been commandeered by the unspeakable Dieter Gluck, a suave thug with muscular friends. Arthur is dead, Colette is on the street, and their son Mortimer has mysteriously disappeared. When Lovejoy sets out to save the day, he finds out that conning a con can be a dangerous proposition, and he'll need every ounce of trickiness to keep more corpses from appearing: "These markets look the soul of innocence, street barrows lined up under merry bunting. In fact they can be scary, while seeming the friendliest places on earth. You've been warned. Much good warnings ever do, though. When greed and antiques meet everybody ignores warnings."
As usual, Gash peppers his pages with a glorious assortment of supporting characters (i.e., accomplices): meet Lydia, Lovejoy's prim and proper apprentice; Tinker, a phlegmatic burglar with a powerful thirst; and Trout, a midget who specializes in Tarzan sing-o-grams. But Lovejoy's voice is the real delight; he is anxious to educate his readers in all manner of antiques arcana--the importance of using real vellum in faking Renaissance miniatures; the history of the great Dogon mask fraud; how to forge scholarly impressions of Roman coins with a bit of isinglass and ochre. His lectures and wry meditations on the foibles of humanity are delivered with the mix of wide-eyed amazement and effortless humor that Gash's readers have come to appreciate and expect. A Rag, a Bone and a Hank of Hair will have Lovejoy fans new and old crying, "Bring on number 22, and hurry, please!" --Kelly Flynn
About the Author
Jonathan Gash has been writing the Lovejoy series for almost 20 years. He is married with three daughters and four grandchildren.
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- PublisherLondon - Macmillan
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0333750306
- ISBN 13 9780333750308
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages352
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A Rag, a Bone and a Hank of Hair
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A Rag, a Bone and a Hank of Hair / The Twenty-First Lovejoy Novel (SIGNED)
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. States "First published 1999 by Macmillan." Number line complete 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 -- the first printing. Signed to the title page (name only.) These later entries in the series sometimes seem overly dependent on frenetic pace and a cast of characters that ought to merit a printed program, though Lovejoy's puckish voice, his antiques expertise, and his constantly stymied attempts to be a better crook and less of a soft touch, do retain their charm. In this one, Lovejoy meets young Mort, who can tell a real antique on sight . . . just like Lovejoy. Ian McShane starred in Ian La Frenais' moderately long-lived British TV series. 344 pp. Here reduced from $50. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 009013
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