The Sleepers of Erin: A Lovejoy Mystery (Paperback)

by Jonathan Gash (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (July 3, 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0140069704
• ISBN-13: 978-0140069709
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #825,361 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lovejoy discovers Ireland, March 9, 2000

By A Customer

One of my favorites in the Lovejoy series. As one of the series' earlier books, it lacks the frantic pace the author employs in the last five or six--much more care is taken with the details. There's a bit of everything here--a few harrowing escapes; a qurky thin and tall Irishmen with an equally quirky vehicle; his beautiful cousin who makes all the right moves; the usual scam by money-hungry pursuers and producers of false antiquities; and in the middle-of-it-all, the wise, and contradictorally naive but worldly Lovejoy, the man who understands what's important and oblivious to what is not.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Buried treasure, January 24, 2008

By	Beverley Strong (Australia) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

The sleepers in the title refer to faked antiques which are made by expert forgers and then stored away until an appropriate time for "discovering" them. In this story, Lovejoy, an antiques dealer who is also a "divvy", a person who can tell a genuine antique from a fake, merely by a certain vibration given out, in much the same way as a water diviner finds water, is taken to Ireland by a pair of crooked collectors and forced into planting fake gold torques in an old, Celtic burial site. The plan is that the fakes will be "accidentally" discovered during a well witnessed walk in the countryside, but Lovejoy discovers, to his horror, that the plan also covers his death in an earth fall-in. I enjoyed this Lovejoy tale although there are others that I enjoyed more.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ireland like you've never seen it before!, November 18, 2004

By	S. Schwartz "romonko" (alberta canada) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Lovejoy goes to Ireland in order to avenge a friend's death, and to take part in the ultimate "sleeper" scheme. As Lovejoy said - "Times are hard in the antiques industry and it's not the dealers' fault if antiques have to be salted away and redisovered. It's also not his fault if such antiques are not really antiques at all." Welcome to the sleazy world of Lovejoy and his unique look on crime. Who'd have thought there could be so many grey areas? Anyway, this is another good one in the Lovejoy series, and Gash handles his double con job with a deft hand indeed. Can't wait to read more.