Monday, October 19, 2009

The Lies of Fair Ladies



# 15 The Lies of Fair Ladies (©1992)

Genre: Mystery
Location: England
The Lies of Fair Ladies (1991) begins with Lovejoy's friend, Prammi Joe, being suspected of stripping a carefully secured mansion of its valuable antiques. When Joe is killed, Lovejoy tracks down the real mastermind behind the heist, an anonymous but sinister broker who is engineering a major swindle that has local dealers feverishly stockpiling antiques in the hope of a quick profit. Lovejoy is aided by a sexy fortune-teller famous for full-body massages and a pet python, and by his prim apprentice, Luna, the mayor's wife. Readers share in Luna's apprenticeship, as Lovejoy instructs her in the fine points of his trade (buying, selling, bidding, faking) and regales her with pearls of philosophic wisdom ("Plastic spoons are the end of civilization").
Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 276: British Mystery and Thriller Writers Since 1960. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Gina Macdonald, Nicholls State University. Gale Group, 2003. pp. 160-174.

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