In his 16th Lovejoy adventure, Gash combines suspense, humor, and a wealth of knowledge about antiques in the elliptical and highly amusing style (Los Angeles Times) that has earned his books a dedicated audience and inspired the successful Lovejoy series on cable TV's A&E channel...
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...