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I don't see the Lovejoy books, by Jonathan Gash, go on sale very often. In fact, I don't see most of them in e-book at all right now, although I have a number of them from several years ago - like 2020 and earlier.

However, The Ten Word Game, which is the next to last in the series, is both available and on sale ($2.99) in the US at the moment. If you haven't read the series (which is really quite fun) and want to stick with e-books, I'm not sure I'd start it now, since only the last couple seem to be available in that format. So why start something you won't have many titles available in? But hopefully some e-publisher manages to pick them up again...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HTJJSU8
Kobo US (discountable): https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-ten-word-game-4

Spoiler:

A mystery in the long-running series featuring the well-known antiques "divvy" and general bad boy, Lovejoy.

Lovejoy cannot be said to have clean hands and a pure heart, flitting bee-like as he does from one flower of womanhood to the next, and straining the truth when necessary. But when it comes to the relics of history, be it a silver tea service or the gold buttons from Lord Nelson's second-best uniform coat, he cannot be topped.

In Jonathans Gash's The Ten Word Game, Lovejoy is hiding out from the law in a port city far from London. By a ruse, he is shanghaied aboard a luxurious cruise ship on its way to Russia. There a group of schemers feed him well, but hold him prisoner because they need his talents for their daring plan. They intend to steal Russia's legendary "amber room," wall panels and all, and sell it for ransom back in the U.K.

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Nicholas Meyer has written seven Sherlock Holmes books in fifty years (!!!), starting with The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, which won the 1975 Gold Dagger Award. Now the second book, The West End Horror, is on sale at Kindle US for $2.99. It's not on sale at Kobo US, at least as of now, but could probably be price-matched.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00RYSNQY8
Kobo US (for price-check/match): https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-west-end-horror-1

Spoiler:

March 1895. London. A month of strange happenings in the West End. First there is the bizarre murder of theater critic Jonathan McCarthy. Then the lawsuit against the Marquess of Queensberry for libel; the public is scandalized. Next, the ingenue at the Savoy is discovered with her throat slashed. And a police surgeon disappears, taking two corpses with him.

Some of the theater district's most fashionable and creative luminaries have been involved: a penniless stage critic and writer named Bernard Shaw; Ellen Terry, the gifted and beautiful actress; a suspicious box office clerk named Bram Stoker; an aging matinee idol, Henry Irving; an unscrupulous publisher calling himself Frank Harris; and a controversial wit by the name of Oscar Wilde.

Scotland Yard is mystified by what appear to be unrelated cases, but to Sherlock Holmes the matter is elementary: a maniac is on the loose. His name is Jack.

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Six years later, Dress Her in Indigo is $1.99 again in the US. The links are still good...

Originally Posted by sufue

Another rare and short-lived price drop on a Travis McGee title, by John D MacDonald...

Dress Her in Indigo is the 11th in the series and has dropped to $1.99 today as part of the US Kindle Daily Deal, matched at Kobo US.

The McGee titles are normally ridiculously expensive, in the US at least, but as I've looked back over the last couple of years, they seem to have been going on sale, very briefly, one-by-one, every few months, without many (or any?) repeats. So, all of this is a long winded way of saying, grab it immediately if you want it. No hesitation, do not pass Go, just grab it .

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Dress-Her-Ind...dp/B008WOO7FK/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dress-her-in-indigo

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Untrue Blue is free right now - the links below are still good. And the more-or-less permanent-freebie first book, Ice Blue, is also still free. Those links are still good too.

Note: I take it back - Untrue Blue doesn't seem to be free at Kindle UK, at least yet. It is showing as free for me at Kobo UK. It's quite odd for something to go free at Kobo UK before Kindle UK, but...

Originally Posted by sufue

Emma Jameson's Untrue Blue is on sale right now in the US ($0.99) and UK (£0.78), and discountable at Kobo. I haven't read this one, but have read and liked all the others in the series...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MSS8GBG
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/untrue-blue
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09MSS8GBG
Kobo UK: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/untrue-blue


And the first book in the series, Ice Blue, has really become almost a permanent freebie, except not at Kobo UK right now...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004UB0WTY
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/ice-blue
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004UB0WTY
Kobo UK (for price-check): https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/ice-blue