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Country
  
United Kingdom

Publication date
  
1977

Pages
  
210 pp.

Originally published
  
1977

Genre
  
Crime Fiction

Publisher
  
Collins Crime Club

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

ISBN
  
0-00-231383-9

Author
  
John Grant

Followed by
  
Gold from Gemini

Awards
  
CWA New Blood Dagger

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Similar
  
John Grant books, Lovejoy books

The Judas Pair is a crime novel by Jonathan Gash. It is the first book in the Lovejoy series. The story was first published in 1977 and won a John Creasey Award.

Contents

The story was adapted by Ian La Frenais for the BBC television series Lovejoy starring Ian McShane. The episode "The Judas Pair" first aired on 7 February 1986 as episode 5 of season 1.

Plot summary

Antiques dealer Lovejoy is commissioned to hunt down what he considers to be a mythical object, the Judas pair, the supposed thirteenth pair of duelling pistols made by the famous London gunmaker Durs Egg. After two murders Lovejoy is certain that the pistols do exist, and are now in the hands of the murderer.

Publication history

  • The Judas Pair, Jonathan Gash, Collins Crime Club, 1977, ISBN 0-00-231383-9, hardcover
  • The Judas Pair, Jonathan Gash, Harper & Row, 1977, ISBN 0-06-011464-9, hardcover
  • The Judas Pair, Jonathan Gash, Dell Publishing, 1981, ISBN 0-440-14354-3, paperback
  • The Judas Pair, Jonathan Gash, W. F. Howes, 1999, ISBN 1-84197-004-2, audiobook cassette
  • The Judas Pair, Jonathan Gash, W. F. Howes, 2000, ISBN 1-84197-091-3, audiobook CD

    • References

    The Judas Pair Wikipedia
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