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The Judas Pair
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The Transcendental Murder (Penguin Crime Monthly)
Dead Pan: A Jocelyn O'Roarke Mystery
Death Mask: A Jocelyn O'Roarke Mystery
God in Concord (Homer Kelly Mysteries (Paperback))
Prized Possessions
Divine Inspiration (Homer Kelly Mysteries (Paperback))
The Shortest Day: Murder at the Revels
The Man Within (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.)
Twenty-one Stories (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.)
The Ministry of Fear: an Entertainment (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
Cut to the Quick
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The Cherry Blossom Corpse

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The Judas Pair
Jonathan
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First Rate!
The beginning of the collection
a delight for an aquired taste!!
Antiques yes - women no

The Judas Pair (Lovejoy Mystery)
Jonathan Gash
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Binding: Paperback

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Winner of the CWA Creasey award for Best First Mystery of 1977 Lovejoy has a strictly thieves code of honor, he does repulsive things to food, and hes a brute to his (many) girlfriends. But what he doesnt know about antiques isnt worth knowing, which has earned him a certain grudging respect among the grifters and antique-dealers of East Anglia. And it could earn him a glorious, wallet-fattening commission. A mysterious collector with money to burn wants Lovejoy to find the notorious Judas pair, a matched set of flintlock dueling pistols. They were made in the 18th century, the last of a scant handful of sets crafted by a brilliantly talented artisan. They were most recently used to murder the collectors brother. As Lovejoy sees it, there is only one small problem: The legendary Judas pair never actually existed. Oh, and one other problem: The Judas pair may be strictly imaginary, mythical, an antique collector's version of the Philosophers Stone. But despite all that, someone is willing to kill to prevent Lovejoy from finding them. The 1st Lovejoy mystery

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Very disappointing.......2006-02-03

I'd hoped that perhaps this would be a series I could enjoy, but I found the rampant sexism anything but fun, and the plot quite implausible and the setting rather thin. The focus on antiques was fine, but I just didn't care for the characters or plot. I'm surprised at the strong ratings this book has received.

First Rate!.......2004-07-16

Lovejoy, where have you been up to now? I can't believe that I waited this long to read the Lovejoy series. It's smart, funny, first rate plotting and characterizations (at least this first book in the series is). I cannot wait to read the rest of the books in this series. These books are thrillers actually more than mysteries, but there is a little of both in them as well as very funny dialogue. Lovejoy is a bounder - not strictly honest, but not an outright crook either. In this book he's trying to track down a set of duelling pistols that everyone thinks were never made. He gets into a pack of trouble doing this. Another fun thing about these books is that as you read them you learn an awful lot about antiques. Great stuff!

The beginning of the collection.......2002-12-18

I finally found the first Lovejoy mystery--not that it is necessary to start reading these wonderful books here, but for the anal retentive like me who must read things in order, it's dreadfully important. The series starts off wild and wooly, too, quickly establishing both the method of Lovejoy's madness (an almost insatiable love for antiques) and his obvious mastery and gift for it. It also establishes what is to become the heart of the books, that wise-cracking attitude of Lovejoy's, direct to the reader, in which he doesn't hesitate to tell you his and the antiques world's trade secrets. Lovejoy isn't afraid to pass this info on because he knows it is of no matter-- the public (i.e, the reader, you and me) is still so dumb that even knowing how things work, we'll still be rubes.

For people whose only experience of Lovejoy is from the A&E series, the books may come as sort of a jolt. While some of the same characters are here, the tone and the interactions are very different (I'm reminded of the difference between Spenser: For Hire and the Parker novels). In this book, Lovejoy has a nervous breakdown, is almost burned and buried alive, and fights a duel with flintlocks in one of the most surprising endings of a mystery novel that has come along in a while (well, this was written in 1977, and I missed it then, so let's just say that it's one of the most surprising endings that I've read in a while).

I feel the urge upon me--read these books!--an urge that hasn't hit me in many years. It's the same urge that put me on to reading all of the Rex Stout and P.G. Wodehouse books. Lovejoy would be pleased--it's the urge of the collector.

a delight for an aquired taste!!.......2002-05-04

This was the first Lovejoy, but I warn American viewers of the Lovejoy telly series NOT to expect the books to be like Ian McShane's Version. This Lovejoy is not quite so loveable. He is shifty, ready to cheat anyone, ready to step over the line if he thinks he cannot get caught, he has a temper, kids shove him around, all his old girlfriends - and there are legion - use him as babysitter. He has a very odd selection of friends - most of the telly characters do not show up to late in the series of books - he has very little respect for women as a whole, other than how he can use them, he barely pays his bills, loves animals, is a big mooch and lives on fried bread and tomato sandwiches. He lets people shove him around, only to turn around and stick up for the underdog.

All in all, at times you might find Lovejoy very unloveable if not downright disgusting.

Ah, but to those that stick with it, you soon find that Lovejoy is an acquired taste that can leaving you howling.

This first one revolved around a pair of missing antique dualing pistols. If you get through to the end and find yourself enjoying the book, you will want to read the rest in the series...though you will always find Lovejoy at times rather disgusting!!

Highly recommended for those wishing their mysteries laced with Brit wit and humour, and that is off the beaten path.

Antiques yes - women no.......2001-11-22

I could not believe the author's view of women. Although his writing about antiques was informative, his amateurish and often silly description of women in the book detracted from the story line.

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The Judas Pair
Cash Jonathan
Manufacturer: Harper and Row
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Judas Pair 1ST Edition
Jonathan Gash
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The Judas Pair
Jonathan Gash
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Jonathan Gash
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The Judas Pair: A Lovejoy Mystery
Jonathan Gash
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3 PBs by Jonathan Gash: Judas Pair, Vatican Rip, Firefly Gadroon (Lovejoy, The Antiques Dealer)

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3 PBs by Jonathan Gash: Judas Pair, Vatican Rip, Firefly Gadroon (Lovejoy, The Antiques Dealer)
Jonathan Gash
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The Judas Pair
Cash Jonathan
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