As the story opens, Lovejoy is doing community service by holding an antiques roadshow for a ladies club as community service as part of an eight month sentence in a low security prison farm for stealing an antique piece of furniture belonging to collector Michael Seymour. Lovejoy was framed by a beautiful Dutch woman who cons him into thinking she'a a partner in a closed antiques shop and the furniture is hers. As per her instructions he delivers it to a dealer in Antwerp, only to be arrested when he returns to Britain. He soon realizes he has been set up but who...and why? Written by [email protected]

Jane asks Lovejoy to peruse the catalog of the aristocratic Carey-Holden family, whose grandfather acquired many objets d'art on a world tour two generations earlier. The only thing Lovejoy finds of value is a Guarini Florentine bronze dating from the Renaissance that looks very much like Botticelli's Venus. Although the greedy but dull Lady Felicity and her snobbish husband believe it must have been sold many years before, Lovejoy spots the bottom part of the two million pound bronze in the family garden, but decides not to inform his obnoxious hosts. Later when Jane asks him to help Carey-Holden's younger brother, a struggling but skilled artist who has been shut out of the family fortune by his avaricious older brother, Lovejoy concocts a sting that will employ Nicholas' skill as a copyist and net him over 200,000 pounds of his brother's money. Written by [email protected]

Lovejoy visits Lady Jane's friend, widow Mrs Jaglom, to value her antiques but is hauled in by the police when she is burgled. Meanwhile Eric's habit of 'bin diving', looking through garbage bins to find discarded valuables, sets him on a collision course with irate dust-bin men led by Brian Nunn who see it as their right to have first refusal. When Brian sells Lovejoy items stolen from Mrs Jaglom he would appear to be one of the burglars, though he ultimately proves himself to be a useful ally in helping Lovejoy catch the real culprits. Written by don @ minifie-1

Eric brings Lovejoy an ancient gold funerary figure from Colombia and asks him to act as agent in its sale. The owner is a heavy metal rock musician, but they soon find out that it is the property of a music promoter, who tells Lovejoy that he wants to get rid of it because it has a curse on it. That proves all too true when the musician and an art dealer each turn up murdered with an Amazonian poison dart and a seductive Latin beauty enters the picture with a keen interest in the statuette too. Written by [email protected]

When Lovejoy agrees to fit out for Tinker's old army friend Linden Walker's new pub he buys a houseload of furniture of former prison officer George Palmer. Unfortunately it turns out to be stolen and to make things worse the victims turn up at the pub's opening night and recognise it,causing Lovejoy to go on the run to clear his name. He does also discover that Tinker lied to him about being an officer in the army when he was in fact a corporal. Written by don @ minifie-1

A painter named Ashley Wilkes comes to Lovejoy's attention. His m.o. is to research cottages that have attractive, middle-aged women living in them, set up an easel in front of the cottage, and then charm the women when they come out to see what he;s doing. He usually ends up selling them the slapdash painting for a couple of hundred pounds and then bedding the woman of the house. Lovejoy has seen some of the artist's more serious impressionistic work and would like to represent him, but is threatened by an army major and some secret agent types who'll stop at nothing to locate one of Wilkes' past conquests. Written by Anonymous

Lovejoy agrees to help Madeline Gilbert,a once famous film star fallen on hard times,to sell her valuables but she is burgled by an armed French gang who have crossed the Channel after killing a gendarme. Lovejoy has an alibi - auctioneer Melanie Ford - but he wonders if she has been coerced into tipping off the villains. Before the gang is caught Tinker puts himself in danger by boarding a boat belonging to Lovejoy's chief suspect,a respected army major. Written by don @ minifie-1

Having bought a collection of erotic prints by Fuseli from teen-aged Khadija, Lovejoy joins his his ex-wife Susan for the speech day at their daughter's school where Lovejoy recognises Khadija as a pupil. She has stolen the pictures from the school as an act of revenge on headmistress Miss Hemmingway for her treatment of her older sister when she was a pupil but is being duped by a blackmailer out to gain money from discrediting Khadija's family to whom she has passed on the collection. Lovejoy sets out to retrieve it in the knowledge that success means that Miss Hemmingway will waive the large amount of school fees he owes her. Written by don @ minifie-1

Having agreed to furnish Ralph Peagram's daughter Amanda's new house after her marriage to philandering Roger Hall,Lovejoy attends the wedding and overhears Ralph and Roger argue. Soon after the reception Roger disappears and Lovejoy discovers his corpse in a suit of armour though when the police arrive it is nowhere to be find. At Amanda's request Lovejoy sets out to solve the mystery,which has its roots in an incident of accidental death and blackmail dating back a quarter of a century. Written by don @ minifie-1

When brash upstart financier Joe Gruber offers to buy land from Lady Jane's husband to create a wildlife sanctuary both Jane and Lovejoy are suspicious of his motives and discover that he has not been exactly honest over his motives. At the same time Lovejoy finds himself in the middle when both Gruber and his dizzy wife Lily admit to having,independently of each other,pawned her pearls when they were short of cash and both engage him to get them back. Written by don @ minifie-1

Lovejoy meets another antique dealer, the affable Harry Catapodis, at a dinner party hosted by a rich, beautiful American widow, Cassandra Lynch, whose late husband had been sold a number of valuable objets d'art by Catapodis. He confides in Lovejoy that he is in the process of selling a rich Japanese businessman the tea bowl used by the Emporer Hirohito just before resigning his divinity at the end of World War II. Lovejoy proves the bowl to be a fake, and also that a Canaletto and other items sold by Catapodis to Cassandra's husband are forgeries. They all vow to revenge themselves on Catapodis using a priceless 9 million dollar icon once owned by Catherine the Great as bait. Written by [email protected]

Lovejoy concocts a sting with rich American widow Cassandra Lynch and wealthy Japanese businessman Toshiro Tanaka to recover the money of which con man/antiques dealer Harry Catapodis defrauded them with dodgy antiques with concocted provenance and outright forgeries. Utilizing a skilled French art forger and a Cockney conman who affects the appearance of an Orthodox Jew, Lovejoy convinces Catapodis that a priceless Catherine the Great icon can be had for 'only' three million dollars. Written by [email protected]