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Lovejoy es un pícaro irresistible con buen ojo para las antigüedades. El detective a tiempo parcial recorre los turbios salones, salas de subastas y casas señoriales de Gran Bretaña, siempre a la caza de un hallazgo.

Lovejoy's entrusted with the medals of the brother of Jane's former housekeeper Vera, but they are stolen from his safe.

Wealthy Australian Greg Veitch arrives in East Anglia looking for his 'Eureka', the thing that he must have, and believes he has found it in a Beninese bronze sculpture belonging to Sir Max Spence. Problems obtaining an export licence leads to him doing a deal with Sir Max and a local forger to get the statue out of the country. When it goes missing Lovejoy comes under suspicion but discovers that police inspector Shand is not all he claims to be - just as Veitch will have a similar experience with the bronze, which will lead him to seek revenge.

Eric becomes involved in a territorial dispute with with garbageman Brian Nunn over his right to salvage valuables from the garbage.

Lovejoy colludes with rich American widow and a Japanese businessman to con the Greek antiques dealer who conned them.

A sickly and paraplegic American multimillionaire is obsessed with saving the art treasures of a slowly sinking Venice and hires Lovejoy to help in his enterprise.

Lovejoy finds it has not the beautiful Caterina he has been seeing in Venice but her greedy sister Lavinia, who is not in saving art for posterity, but herself.

In hospital with a broken leg, Lovejoy delegates Lady Jane and Tinker to sell a terra cotta Chinese pig to a Chinese banker. It turns out to be a forgery and gets broken, revealing its contents, a valuable medieval Chinese bank note. But this might also be a forgery so Lovejoy makes use of micro-surgery to examine another pig, one of several in the possession of choleric dealer and possible swindler Sir Desmond Clark. Meanwhile Eric meets fellow biker, the lovely Natasha, with whose help he sells his motor-cycle as having been the property of Lawrence of Arabia.

When Lovejoy returns from a prolonged hiatus in Spain courtesy of his sting of conman Harry Catopolous and reunites with Jane, Eric, and Tink.

While reviewing articles from an estate sale of an eccentric engineer, Lovejoy uncovers clues that lead him to an ancient Roman grave.

Lovejoy journeys to Scotland with Jane to help her friend who needs him to help her raise money to maintain her expensive estate.

After Lovejoy is released from a low security prison after an eight month sentence for theft, he is determined to find out who framed him.

Lovejoy learns that his daughter is living with a middle-aged man and that a close friend has been duped into buying an expensive forged painting.

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.

When Lady Jane puts a Berber rug into auction it is bought by elderly Harriet Fisher for her Irish wolfhound, but young Moroccan Abdel is also after it and steals it from her house. Lovejoy buys a second rug and again Abdel is keen to own it, claiming that the rugs were woven in his village by his girlfriend and contain the answer to his marriage proposal. Lovejoy is not convinced and learns that Abdel's prospective uncle Said has a more mercenary reason for wanting the rug. Having got it back for Harriet, Lovejoy comforts Lady Jane, who has split from her husband after refusing to go to Hong Kong with him for his job.

Lovejoy and Jane help a likable and honorable Japanese businessman, Mr. Kashimoti, become a member of an elite golfing country club.

After Lovejoy is recruited to sell an ancient Colombian funerary figure with a curse on it, and it soon lives up to its reputation as murders soon follow.

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.

An Irish rock group staying with Jane has their money stolen by the event organizer along with a priceless Celtic harp.

Lovejoy is intrigued by a painter using the name Ashley Wilkes, squandering his talent on kitschy paintings of cottages and seducing the lady of the house.

After spending the weekend with Victoria, Lovejoy takes her to an antiques fair and cannot believe his luck when he picks up a set of paintings by famous artist Lionel Beckwith for a mere twelve pounds. He sells them to a local gallery but is interrupted by Beckwith himself, claiming they are forgeries. A little detective work on Lovejoy's part reveals Beckwith's reasons for wanting supposedly adverse publicity, as interest in his work is falling. Lady Jane saves the day for Eric after he is conned by a supposedly bereaved pensioner.

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 found. 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.

After Lovejoy meets Harry Catopodis at a party thrown by a rich American widow, he discovers that the Emporer Hirohito teabowl he is selling is a fake.

Vicky finds a Scots claymore in the attic of her new flat which Lovejoy buys from her. He is approached by a man named Kinloch who offers him a more than generous price for it, claiming a family connection, and, when a suspicious Lovejoy refuses, the sword becomes the subject of a bungled burglary. Lovejoy is intrigued and finds out that the sword provides the key to a cache of French gold buried in the ground. Ironically Tartan Transactions, a controversial firm in which Kinloch has an interest, has just built a supermarket over it and retrieval seems unlikely.

After Lovejoy offers to sell a seventeenth century 'Smoke Your Nose' dish for him, vicar Harry Nettles tells him that there is the remains of a Roman villa in the field next to his church, but the land is marked for development by shifty Derek Rudge as a leisure centre. Lovejoy wonders why nobody has bothered to take Harry's claims seriously and uncovers an arrangement between Rudge and county archaeologist Nancy Phelan, which results in the reverend's story being authenticated. Eric is less fortunate when he sells a grandfather clock to pernickety Mr. Rosenbaum, who is definitely not what he seems.