The Very Last Gambado

By: Jonathan Gash

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Paperback | 1 March 1991

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In the world of antiques there is one great remaining scam - to rob the British Museum. When Lovejoy is employed as an antiques advisor on a film set, the murder, mayhem and double-crossing are not confined to the film. This is the 13th book in the Lovejoy series.

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A letdown after the wry and witty Jade Woman, this fifth escapade for art "divvie" Lovejoy is chiefly notable as a love letter to the British Museum, whose every nook and cranny is described with relish. Here, Lovejoy is hired by a production company filming a movie about a robbery at the Museum. Lovejoy's assignment: to tell them what should be stolen, and how ought it to be done. But as the supposedly fake scenario coincides more and more with real events - including the murder of an antiques forger and the disappearance of a curio dealer - Lovejoy begins to realize that it's a setup, and he's the victim, scheduled actually to die during a film take. How he outwits the dimwits, and even manages to confound the Museum's very able security staff, hinges on a neat touch of authorial misdirection but, in true Lovejoy fashion, hardly ends with the dastardly charmer on top - now he's clearly at the mercy of his dazzlingly prim assistant Lydia, who's determined to rehabilitate him. Gash, who has promised to provide a Lovejoy glossary, could use one here; the slang is sometimes impenetrable. Still, this reminds, you-of-Topkapi does have that one great attribute: the British Museum. That's always worth a visit. (Kirkus Reviews)

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