Firefly Gadroon: Jonathan Gash

Lovejoy VI. Our dear readers who remember the eighties may well remember Ian McShane as Lovejoy, the wryly irreverent antique dealer who kept the viewers up to date on his current mystery by talking directly to the camera. Here is a story from Lovejoy's antique world - filled, as usual, with greed, desire, love and death. Lovejoy always seems to be getting into trouble - or trouble finds him. Two rows with women, one pub fight and a police warning - and all before mid afternoon. After that, Lovejoy's life gets worse. A 'small portable Japanese box' is sold at an auction under Lovejoy's nose. He wants that box - a genuine antique firefly cage - but someone else wants it even more. Because it might be the first clue to a secret worth murdering for. The victim battered to death on the Essex marshes was a friend of Lovejoy's - so now it's a matter of personal vengeance.