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Chimato Lovejoy, lui è un ladro irresistibile con un occhio attento per l'antiquariato. Il detective part-time perlustra le oscure sale di vendita, le sale d'asta e le case signorili della Gran Bretagna, sempre alla ricerca di qualcosa.

Dopo aver trascorso otto anni in prigione per un crimine che non ha commesso, l'omicidio di sua moglie, John Madson è stato rilasciato e vuole vendicarsi del poliziotto che lo ha incastrato, il Det. Isp. Rourke.

Lovejoy's search for diamonds stolen from a priceless religious object takes him and Eric to Prague where dark forces are plotting against them.

Lovejoy uses the vacated Felsham house to sell antiques, both real and genuine, before the auction over the objections of the receivers.

Frustrated by his failure to get evidence on a Polish smuggler, D.S. Pulver frames Tinker in order to coerce Lovejoy into helping him run a sting.

In Brighton on a working holiday, Lovejoy meets Lady Jane's friend Louise, widow of a Belgian baron and resistance hero. She possesses a valuable porcelain plate, part of a larger dinner service stolen by the Nazis in the war. With the help of psychic Olwyn, Lovejoy is able to track down the remaining service but discovers that one of her predictions was grammatically incorrect. Lady Jane meanwhile confesses her feelings for Lovejoy to Louise.

A deranged murderer with a penchant for puzzles and a pathological hatred of Lovejoy tries to lure him into a trap by kidnapping and threatening to kill Charlotte.

Shady businessman Frank Whymark's priceless 18th Century samurai sword has been stolen and he enlists Lovejoy to locate within 3 days or else.

While Tink and Eric are vacationing at his uncle Jack's, a Metropolitan DCI specializing in antiques, is determined to pin a robbery on Lovejoy.

After a night of heavy drinking Lovejoy wakes up to being charged with assaulting Charlotte and stealing a painting, but he has no memory of anything.

Facing huge death duties, Christian Shotley asks Lovejoy to sell his family's antiques, only for Lovejoy to find they are excellent forgeries made by Christian's father. However, when local ladies' man 'Beau' Whittaker discovers a flag dating from the battle of Lexington hidden in the family church, a profitable sale seems likely. However, American air force colonel Fellowes claims the flag as being stolen from his family two hundred years earlier. With the local vicar entering the fray, it is as well that the Shotleys own a priceless set of model soldiers whose sale could ease their worries.

Lovejoy buys a collection of Islamic antiques from retired diplomat Harold Plumb, who warns him that by rights some of the collection should have gone to the Foreign Office. He obtains his purchasing money from loan shark John Hill, putting up his daughter's flat as collateral, only to find the police on his trail and a visit to the Foreign Office discloses the fact that Plumb is a con-man who stole the articles in question. Helped by Charlotte, Lovejoy stages an extremely elaborate charade to get the deeds for the flat back from Hill.

Lady Jane ropes Lovejoy into organizing a charity auction for the local hospital and visiting the geriatric ward, where he meets elderly Florence and stops her greedy son from stealing her antique condiment set. A series of ram raids, robbing antiques to order, spells trouble for Lovejoy when a Sheraton table he is minding for a friend is smashed. Mysterious Belgian Monsieur Forget involves Gimbert in a quest for a particular clock and becomes a suspect in the raids, as does Danny, a boy who saves Lady Jane from a mugging and undertakes odd jobs at her house. However, the identity of the real mastermind gives real meaning to the term 'cold as charity'.

In order to settle a dentist bill Lovejoy agrees to investigate the alleged drowning death of a man who reportedly fell or jumped from a ferry.

After a skilled gunsmith refuses to sell his shop in what has become a red light district, the local vice lord frames him and Lovejoy for robbery.

Lovejoy buys a tatty kitchen cabinet for a song, knowing that, after restoration, it is a valuable antique dresser but the owners con Beth into parting with it. After her mother hypnotizes her, Beth recalls who took it and the trail leads to shady dealer Oliver Jeffries. By coincidence, Charlotte, who is minding a friend's baby, is accidentally locked in Jeffries' shop overnight. Lovejoy regains his property but is not pleased to receive a visit from the tax man.

In Ireland where Lady Jane hopes to buy a Jack Butler Yeats painting, Lovejoy and his associates interrupt a burglary at the home of disreputable dealer Bertie Montserrat, though Montserrat denies there was a crime. The thieves dropped a page from the legendary and supposedly lost Book of Clonmel, which leads Lovejoy to the monastery of Father Xavier, who rescued the book and to the cleric's sister Maeve Fitzgerald, an impoverished, once famous actress who has allowed herself to be manipulated by Montserrat to gain money to save her house.

Tink's decision to leave antiques and open a pub causes Lovejoy to pop the question to Charlotte, but things become complicated with Jane's return from America.

Lovejoy temporarily turns his back on his own ethical standards... to his ultimate regret.

Two competing Tong bosses vie for a Ming Dynasty war cannon which Lovejoy is selling for a lady friend of Charlie's.

Bill Brodie, one of the country's biggest pork farmers, is expecting a royal visit and is desperate to rid himself of a hot property, A Venetian bronze stolen from the Palace.

When Lovejoy tries to help save an institution for the mentally disturbed by selling the institution's antiques, someone tries to kill him.

Lovejoy is intrigued when famous violinist Lindsey Parry-Davies mysteriously asks him to make his valuable Stradivarius look like an imitation, but nonetheless calls on the services of Tommy Norris, Liverpool supporter and king of the violin fakers. Eventually, after an attempt to burgle his house, Lindsey admits to Lovejoy that his plan was to thwart his stepfather, a failed musician who collects instruments solely to display them, though the pair are reconciled.

Tink seems depressed and after Lovejoy bawls him out for a incorrect appraisal, he inexplicably disappears without a word.

Lovejoy accompanies Charlotte to Wales in search of a stolen Celtic cross that may have come from a coastal cave that served as a Medieval church.