Lovejoy

Lovejoy has just come out of prison after serving a sentence for theft.

A mean landowner is reluctant to share an inheritance with his hard-up brother, who is a friend of Jane's.

Lovejoy values the house contents of an elderly widow, an old friend of Jane's, who is burgled soon afterwards.

The manager of a heavy rock band wants to sell an ancient pre-Columbian solid gold statue, and it brings Inca black magic into East Anglia - including two murders.

Lovejoy and Jane have the job of fitting out a smart new restaurant being opened by Major Linden Walker, an old army friend of Tinker's.

Ashley Wilkes travels around East Anglia painting charming pictures of country cottages and seducing their female inhabitants.

Tinker is thrilled when Madeline Gilbert, a retired film star, sends for the Lovejoy team, as he has an old crush on her.

Lovejoy is in hot water for not paying the school fees of his teenage daughter, Vicky.

Amanda Peagram, a local landowner's daughter, is engaged to Roger Hall, and Lovejoy (on the instructions of Amanda's father) is furnishing a house with antiques for the couple.

Jane's husband, Alexander, has a new business partner called Joe Gruder, but Lovejoy is suspicious of him.

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

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