The Possessions of a Lady - Hardcover

Gash, Jonathan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670869333 ISBN 13: 9780670869336

Publisher: Viking, 1996

Synopsis

High-stakes antiques dealer Lovejoy is coming off an unsuccessful liaison with a rich fashion-plate when he finds himself choosing between helping a friend find a missing seventeen-year-old girl, or exploring a mysterious invitation found in a borrowed tux. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. Tour.

About this title

About the Author:

Jonathan Gash is a doctor specialising in Tropical Medicine. He lectures worldwide on the subject. He developed his love for antiques during his years as a medical student when he supplemented his income by working in the London street markets. He is married with three daughters, and four grandchildren, and lives in Essex.

From Kirkus Reviews:

Yet another chapter (the 19th) in the up-and-down life of Lovejoy--antiques expert supreme; magnet for attractive women; and dud at everything else (The Grace in Older Women, 1995, etc.). This latest installment finds him penniless, homeless, and mystified. Who's buying the underpriced, unrecognized treasures he has spotted before he can get to them? Even sodden old Tinker Dill, his longtime friend and barker, comes under suspicion, although Lovejoy continues to look for Tinker's runaway teenaged Australian niece Vyna. Meanwhile, Lovejoy's affair with fashion expert Thekla is over, but somehow he winds up back north, in his hometown near Manchester, running an antiques auction that's to be followed by Thekla's fashion show starring a procession of the local museum's priceless Victorian clothes. Along the way, Lovejoy discovers his old pal Spoolie (a vintage-film expert) murdered in his bathtub; almost gets charged with the bashing of hospitalized designer Viktor Vasho; and barely misses being wiped out by a firebomb hurled from a car. The untidy resolution to these puzzlers, and a dozen more, is frenzied, bloody, and near-nonsensical. The good stuff is history and antiques lore from Cro-Magnon caves to late Wesleyan chapels; lessons in scams and fakery; a string of picaresque characters, and Lovejoy's slangy, stream-of- consciousness style. Great fun in its inimitable, rollicking, often frustrating way--but not for everyone. (Author tour) -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0670869333
• ISBN 13: 9780670869336
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 324