Lovejoy discovers that an unscrupulous antique dealer has swindled nearly two million pounds from an American widow and a rich Japanese businessman. He plans to retrieve their money with an elaborate 'sting'.

Lovejoy smells a rat when he meets Lady Jane's husband's new business partner.

At a society wedding, Lovejoy overhears a row between a landowner and his new son-in-law. Then he discovers the groom has been murdered, but nobody believes him because the body has disappeared.

Lovejoy is astonished when a teenage girl brings him erotic drawings to sell.

A gang of international art thieves are stealing from large country houses

Lovejoy is asked to find an itinerant painter who holds the key to a shameful secret.

Lovejoy and Lady Jane are commissioned to furnish a restaurant.

Does the curse of an ancient Mayan statue acquired by Lovejoy cause two murders?

Soon after Lovejoy has valued the contents of an elderly widow's house, it is burgled. One of the stolen items, a gun case minus the guns, is offered to Lovejoy to buy.

Lovejoy is introduced to a rich landowner who will not share his inherited wealth with his impoverished brother.

Lovejoy has been wrongfully convicted of dealing in stolen goods. When he emerges from prison he is determined to find out who framed him.