SIDNEY SHELDON

Sidney Sheldon (February 11, 1917 – January 30, 2007) was an Academy Award-winning American writer who won awards in three careers—a Broadway playwright, a Hollywood TV and movie screenwriter, and a best-selling novelist. It was not until after he turned 50 and began writing best-selling novels such as Master of the Game (1982), The Other Side of Midnight (1973) and Rage of Angels (1980) that he became famous.

He wrote 18 novels till date and some of them were among the best sellers of their time .. now I post links for each one of them according to their release dates :)

THE NAKED FACE

The Naked Face is the first novel (1970) written by him. It won the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America. In 1983 the novel was adapted as a film directed by Bryan Forbes, starring Roger Moore and Rod Steiger.

Plot summary

Judd Stevens is a psychoanalyst faced with the most critical case of his life. If he does not penetrate the mind of a murderer he will find himself arrested for murder or murdered himself...

Two people closely involved with Dr. Stevens have already been killed. Is one of his patients responsible? Someone overwhelmed by his problems? A neurotic driven by compulsion? A madman? Before the murderer strikes again, Judd must strip away the mask of innocence the criminal wears, uncover his inner emotions, fears, and desires-expose the naked face beneath...

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The Other Side of Midnight

The Other Side of Midnight is a 1973 novel by Sidney Sheldon. The book reached No.1 on the New York Times Best Seller list. It was made into a 1977 motion picture, directed by Charles Jarrott. The cast included Marie-France Pisier, John Beck, Susan Sarandon, Christian Marquand and Josette Banzet.

Plot summary

The story focuses on two women: the first is an enchanting French actress, Noelle Page, who journeys from the fishing town of Marseilles to fame and glory. Having been sold by her own father, she reconciles herself to a life that bears no similarity to the picture perfect one she dreamt of when she was young, and sets her sights on achieving her goal of becoming a successful filmstar. She succeeds on making it to the top by pleasuring various men. On the other side of the globe, Catherine Alexander, a naive and beautiful young woman, struggles in Chicago for recognition and success. American war aviator Larry Douglas is a typical playboy who trots around the globe sweeping women off their feet. Constantin Demiris is a Greek tycoon who owns half the world. Cunning and influential, he does not forgive and forget. Demeris controls the lives of the other three characters in a most unexpected manner, twisting the plot to a stunning finish.

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A Stranger in the Mirror

A Stranger in the Mirror is a 1976 novel by Sidney Sheldon.

Plot summary

This book is about the lives of two people- Toby Temple and Jill Castle. Toby Temple, nurtured by his strict mother has always dreamt of only making his mother happy and finds that the only way to make his mother happy is to imitate others and thus the dream of becoming a film star dawns on him and his mother. And at one point of his life he is forced to leave his mother for his own safety and he goes to Hollywood with huge dreams of becoming a star. But he struggles a lot and somehow gets himself admitted into an acting school and in course of time becomes a huge celebrity and a master of seducing women.

Meanwhile the story moves towards Josephine , born to a seamstress in Texas. Josephine has been suffering form a very bad childhood. After a few years Josephine grows to be strikingly beautiful and falls in love with the town's richest most eligible bachelor David, but he is forced to marry another girl because of his sick and dominating mother and also because of his unpleasant history. A depressed Josephine then decides to run away from her place and changes her name as Jill Castle and tries her luck at Hollywood. There again she becomes the victim of many cruel men and then she realises that she can retain herself in cinema field only through her body and then she buys many small roles in films and advertisements with her body .

The story speeds up when both these characters meet for a shooting and Toby falls for her and fails in seducing her and eventually falls in love with her and discovers a new great feeling which he has never experienced with any other woman and his feelings toward her intensifies. And also Jill falls for him in spite of the 20 years gap between them and they marry and lead a very happy life and Jill becomes a very dominating women in the film industry and takes revenge against everyone who victimised her and she becomes the world for Toby. Then Toby falls very sick and becomes paralysed and when the whole world thinks that he is gone forever, she struggles a lot and makes him more active by pouring all her care and love on him. By the time Toby comes to life again, Jill becomes very weak and when Toby comes on the screen again the world rejoices his re-entry and proclaims their love to be the love of the century. And again Toby falls sick and at this time Jill also feels very weak to again bring him back and meets her first love David who becomes a divorcee and again the romance between them ignites and she couldn't resist Toby's sickness and hence she murders him and the world believes that his death was accidental and then Jills joins David in a cruise to marry him where an old enemy of Jill reveals to David her secret history and then he leaves Jill depressed and then Jill joins Toby in his land of heaven. The story wonderfully portrays the emotions of humans and how they become victims of time.

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Bloodline

Bloodline is a 1977 novel by Sidney Sheldon.

Plot Summary

Roffe and Sons is a family firm, an international empire filled with desperate, cash-hungry family members. At its head was one of the wealthiest men in the world, a man who has just died in a mysterious accident and left his only daughter, Elizabeth, in control of the company. Now as this intelligent, tough, and beautiful young woman dares to save - not sell - Roffe and Sons, she will have to outwit those who secretly want her power, and the unknown assassin who wants her life.

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Rage of Angels

Rage of Angels is a 1980 novel by Sidney Sheldon.

Plot summary

Jennifer Parker is late for her first morning at work, where she's to be sworn in as an Assistant District Attorney for the State of New York, county of Manhattan. A beautiful, brilliant attorney, she becomes the foil for a plot by Michael Moretti, the rising star of one of the most powerful organized crime families in America. Moretti is on trial for murder and conspiracy, and Robert Di Silva is prosecuting. Within four hours, Jennifer is fired, ruined, and faces disbarment. She can't find a job anywhere until Adam Warner comes into her life. He's been asked to investigate her involvement with Moretti, and recommend for or against her being thrown out of the legal profession in disgrace.

Although Warner decides Parker isn't guilty of taking a bribe, what follows is a terrible struggle on Jennifer's part, to survive in New York City. Blackballed by every law firm in the country, Jennifer takes on a hopeless case. She will face Robert Di Silva, the brilliant District Attorney who has vowed to destroy her for her part in the fiasco with Michael Moretti. When she wins the case, Moretti decides he wants her as the Family consigliere (a mafia lawyer).

Adam Warner, married and also an attorney, has a strict rule against affairs, being married to Mary Beth, the niece of the senior partner in a very powerful New York law firm. Warner is being groomed for the Senate, with possibly a White House destination, but he can't help falling in love with Jennifer. When Adam tells Jennifer that Mary Beth has asked for a divorce, Jennifer meets with Warner's wife. Being so close to the Senate election, the two women decide it's best for Adam to wait until after the election. Mary Beth goes to bed one last time with Adam, and tricks him into making her pregnant.

Adam learns that his wife is pregnant, wins the election, and tells Jennifer that he must stay married for "a little while longer," never discovering that Jennifer, too, is pregnant. They break up, and Jennifer decides to keep the baby and become a single mom.

When her son is kidnapped, Jennifer, in desperation, turns to Michael Moretti for help. Moretti is handsome, powerful, and dangerous, and eventually seduces Jennifer. This begins a love triangle that sweeps across America's political and organized crime landscape as Jennifer, Adam, and Michael rise to become the most powerful figures in the country.

Her life soon turned into a nightmare when her son dies, due to a head injury. After the death, Jennifer's life falls apart as Michael Moretti plan to kill Adam and she had to stop him. She ended up getting shot by Michael, who finally knew of her affair with the politician, and fighting for her life. Near the end of the story, Adam Warner learns that he had a son, by Jennifer, but it was too late, because he was made the president of the United States

In his earlier works, Sheldon is a master of plot twists, complications, and the emotional ups and downs of people's lives. "Rage of Angels" is one of his rare stories that does not have a happy ending. Despite being a somewhat pessimistic book, it's a fascinating journey into the complexities of crime and punishment, politics, and corruption. Sheldon masterfully portrays the brilliant legal strategies that make Jennifer Parker come to life as a fully believable criminal defense lawyer.

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Master of the Game

Master of the Game is a novel by Sidney Sheldon. It was first published in hardback format in 1982. The novel has won critical acclaim, debuting at number one on the New York Times Bestseller List; the fifth book by Sidney Sheldon to do so.

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The plot of the book spans six generations, and it is based upon the fictional lives of the Blackwell family. The book follows the life of an entrepreneur, Kate Blackwell, and explores her family, ancestry and life. It focuses on the building of her father's company, from a small business into a multinational corporation.

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If Tomorrow Comes

If Tomorrow Comes is a 1985 novel by Sidney Sheldon.

Plot

Tracy Whitney is on top of the world. Young, beautiful, and intelligent, she is about to marry into wealth and glamour. A late-night phone call from New Orleans, informs her that her mother has committed suicide. Betrayed by her own innocence, Tracy winds up in prison, framed by a ruthless Mafia gang, abandoned by the man she loves, and facing a year or two as the "wife" of Ernestine Littlechap (Ernie), who later helps Tracy to take revenge against Pope Perry and the Judge.

Beautiful, smart, and idealistic, Tracy enters a life of hardship and violence and vows revenge against all those who harmed her. Eventually, she becomes the nanny for the prison warden's young daughter, a job that leads to her release from jail. Desperate, unable to find work as an ex-con, she turns to a well-known New York City jewelry store owner (and fence) who helps her make some fast money in a jewel heist. Escaping with the goods, Tracy has an encounter with Jeff Stevens, a master con man.

Stevens steals the jewels from Tracy, who realizes she's been had. She then cons Jeff, taking back her prize, and decides that Jeff will become another future victim of her brilliant revenge schemes. Not long after, Tracy travels to England and is introduced to Gunther Hartog, a world-class fence for valuable stolen property. Thus begins her life as one of the world's cleverest criminals. Sheldon invents some brilliant schemes, filled with humor and ingenuity (although they likely wouldn't work in reality), that Tracy pursues as she encounters Jeff Stevens again and again. Although they "hate each other," we begin to see their growing appreciation, respect, admiration, and enjoyment of their mutual competition.

Interpol, the FBI, and police departments and insurance companies around the world are trying to prevent Tracy from stealing priceless jewels, paintings, or other prizes. In every case they fail. Only Daniel Cooper, a plain-looking sociopath and insurance investigator seems capable of matching Tracy's brilliance.

Unusually, the book presents the nominal "villains" -- Tracy and Jeff -- as sympathetic and kind-hearted, while the pursuing detective, Cooper, is presented as almost psychotic; this could be a reversal of the classic "bloodhound detective" chasing a smart and elusive enemy, as in The Day of the Jackal. There was also a TV miniseries based on the book.

In the end, Tracy and Jeff plan to meet with each other, and live together in Brazil. The story ends with a stranger Maximilian asking to be with acquaintances with Tracy.

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Windmills of the Gods

Windmills of the Gods is a 1987 novel by American thriller writer Sidney Sheldon.

Plot summary

Mary Ashley, a professor at the University of Kansas is offered an ambassadorship by the President of the United States. She rejects the offer because her husband does not want to leave his medical practice, and she is not willing to be separated from him. She also feels that it is harder to find a good doctor for a small Kansas town than an ambassador to a foreign country. When her husband suddenly dies in a suspicious traffic accident, Ashley accepts the President's offer in order to fill the void in her life. She is sent to Romania, behind the Iron Curtain, where she finds that everyone is conspiring against her.

The world's most efficient and mysterious assassin has marked her for death, thereby plunging her into a nightmare of terror. Only two people -- both powerfully attractive and enigmatic men -- can help her. And one of them wants to kill her.

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The Sands of Time

The Sands of Time is a 1988 novel by novelist Sidney Sheldon.

Plot

The story begins in Pamplona, Spain in 1976. The Basque people are fighting for against Spain for rights such as speaking their language, celebrating their holidays, and displaying their flag. While people are distracted with bulls let loose in the town during a fight, the famous Jaime Miró (a member of the Basque terrorist group ETA) sneaks into the Pamplona prison disguised as a priest and escapes with two of his fellow terrorists, Ricardo Mellado and Felix Carpio. The Prime Minister assigns Colonel Ramón Acoca (head of the anti-ETA group GOE) to find and kill Jaime Miró.

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Memories of Midnight

Memories of Midnight is a 1990 novel written by Sidney Sheldon. It is a sequel to Sheldon's The Other Side of Midnight.

Plot summary

The plot of Memories of Midnight takes off from the ending of The Other Side of Midnight, where Catherine Douglas is recovering in a convent. The outside world believes that she has been murdered by her husband, Larry, and his mistress Noelle Page. While in actuality, she has had amnesia, and has been placed in this convent by shipping tycoon Constantin Demiris.

Catherine request a need to see the world outside the convent. This request is acceeded by the Sister of the convent, but only after getting the approval of their mentor Constantin Demiris. He sees that she is taken out and placed in London with a job in one of his various offices there.

Meanwhile, anyone who comes to know that Catherine is alive is getting killed...

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The Doomsday Conspiracy

The Doomsday Conspiracy is a thriller novel by American writer Sidney Sheldon published in 1991 .

Plot summary

This story takes us through the twists and turns of a worldwide government conspiracy and possibly the end of the world. One man's job to uncover witnesses of a mysterious event leads them and him into danger. Why?

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The Stars Shine Down

The Stars Shine Down is a 1992 novel by Sidney Sheldon.

Plot summary

The book tells the story of Lara Cameron, who made her way through success by becoming one of the top world site builders over a traditionally male domain. Coming from a broken family in Nova Scotia, she promised herself to gain more power to show to her father that he was wrong. Beautiful but insecure, ruthless yet vulnerable, Lara has struggled brutally to achieve it all and she still wants more. And in a global setting from London to New York, from Reno to Rome, she will find everything she has ever desired and won.

The thrill and fun of the realty industry, the care for the staff and the true love which finds her back and the staff staying by her side are some of the interesting twists in the plot.

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Nothing Lasts Forever

Nothing Lasts Forever is a 1994 novel by Sidney Sheldon.

Plot Summary

This medical thriller tells the story of three female doctors trying to prove themselves in a profession dominated by men. Each of them has their own story, and each of their tales are well connected and intertwined with each other. But suddenly there is chaos. , one dies, another is about to get the hospital shut down, and the third faces the death penalty for murder.

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Morning, Noon and Night

Morning, Noon and Night is a 1995 novel by Sidney Sheldon.

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The Best Laid Plans

The Best Laid Plans is a 1997 novel by Sidney Sheldon. Possible inspiration for the title comes from a paraphrasing of the Robert Burns poem To a Mouse into modern English.

Plot summary

Oliver Russell, a man with a desire for power, is fated to rise to the highest office, that of President of the United States. Leslie Stewart, his betrayed fiancée, is a woman dedicated to the single purpose of bringing Oliver Russell to ruin. After amassing her own media empire and marshaling all her forces against him, she stands poised to destroy Russell on the eve of his most dazzling triumph. Thinking only of preventing Oliver from winning the Presidency for a second term, little did she know that she was about to fall into her own trap.

When Oliver returns from Paris married to Jan, Leslie vows to avenge him. However she keeps her thoughts concealed. This makes Todd Davies, Jan's father, introduce her to one of his friends, who owns a newspaper. A brief introduction followed by marriage sees Leslie man her husband's empire. With his falling health and subsequent death, Leslie becomes the sole owner of his properties. In spite of all the other businesses, Leslie takes an immense liking for the media empire, with which she intends to destroy Oliver. During this part, Dana Evans, who stars in Sheldon's other novel "Sky is Falling" appears as an inquisitive reporter who adopts a boy from war torn Sarajevo.

In the meantime, Oliver becomes the president and alongside occur a series of death, all due to toxicity of Liquid Ecstacy(Methylenedioxymethamphetamine).While Leslie is convinced it is Oliver who is behind these murders, goes on to publish the news of his arrest before it is confirmed. Dana Evans in the meantime unmasks the real culprit, while the president reveals a shocking secret.

The book ends with the proposal of a peace pact by the Arab nations, while Leslie is left wondering if she had gone a bit too far.

This is a novel of suspense, revenge, romance and politics.

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Tell Me Your Dreams

Tell Me Your Dreams is a 1998 novel by the American writer Sidney Sheldon.

Plot summary

The central character of the book is Ashley Patterson, an introverted workaholic, and her co-workers, Toni Prescott, an outgoing singer and dancer, and shy artist Alette Peters.

The three women do not get along well because of their dissimilar natures. Toni and Alette generally maintain a friendship, with Alette a calming influence, but Toni dislikes Ashley and criticizes her harshly. All three women have issues with their mothers having told them they'd never amount to anything.

Ashley fears that somebody is following her. She's found her house lights turned on when she comes home from work, her personal effects in disarray, and someone has written "You will die" on her mirror with a lipstick. She thinks someone's broken into her house. She requests a police escort, but the next morning, the police officer assigned to this duty is found dead in her apartment. Two other murders have already taken place, with an identical pattern.All the murdered men had been castrated and were having sex before being murdered.Evidence points to the same woman being involved in all three cases. When a gift from one of the murdered men to Toni is found in Ashley's things, she is identified as the killer and arrested. At this point, it is revealed that the three women are three selves in a multiple personality group.

Ashley’s father persuades an attorney friend to represent Ashley. The second half of the novel deals with the trial, complete with endless squabbling between opposing psychiatrists as to whether or not MPD is real. Ashley is committed to an insane asylum and in the course of therapy is introduced to her two "alters" and relives the horrific events that shattered her mind.She was sexually abused by her father during childhood and this made her to develope a strong hatred towards men.

True to Syndney Sheldon's mysterious style , the story has a shocking ending.

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The Sky Is Falling

The Sky Is Falling is a 2001 novel by Sidney Sheldon.

Plot Summary

The main character to this book is Dana Evans, an anchorwoman for the press, who was also featured, though not as a main character, in another of Sidney Sheldon's book, The Best Laid Plans.

The story starts off with a prologue, a mysterious auction that involves a huge amount of money. Dana Evans had just came back from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is rushing to a meeting with the last member of the Winthrop family, Gary Winthrop. The story starts to get complicated when, a few hours after the interview with Dana, Gary Winthrop was shot and killed by some thieves who were, supposedly, stealing some paintings. Although most viewed this tragic row of events as accidents, the rest of the Winthrop family were killed in a series of suspicious "accidents" a few months beforehand, Dana was the exception. Taylor and Madeline Winthrop, Gary's parents, perished in a fire that burnt down their house, Paul Winthrop died when his car drove off a cliff, and Julie Winthrop died in a skiing accident. Dana couldn't believe that accidents had wiped out one of the most prominent families in the world. She began to investigate, delving deeper and deeper into the family's secrets.

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Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Are You Afraid of the Dark? is a 2004 novel by bestselling thriller writer Sidney Sheldon.

Plot Summary

In four cities across the world, four people die violently and mysteriously. The dead share a single crucial link: each was connected to an all-powerful environmental think tank. Two of the victims' widows-accomplished artist Diane Stevens and international supermodel Kelly Harris-may hold the key to their husbands' demise. Terrified for their lives, suspicious of each other, and armed only with their own wits and guile, they must join forces in a nightmare cycle of hunt-and-kill. At stake is the shattering truth about the tragedies that robbed them of the men they loved...and about an awesome conspiracy whose ultimate target is as big as the earth and as close as the air we breathe.

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