Morning, Noon & Night

It's not my favorite Sidney Sheldon novel ("Master of the Game " holds that honor) but it's still a good story. A wealthy family with a lot of skeletons, a hated patriarch, a billion dollar inheritance, an illegitimate heiress, plus criminals, drug dealers, a carefully planned deception that spirals, good guys to the rescue and other assorted melodrama, make for entertaining reading.

It's a shame. really. Sidney Sheldon once wrote page turners like no one else. His books were quite un-put-downable, and I was willing to buy them upon publication without having any idea what they were about.

Times have changed. At some point Sheldon stopped producing top-notch novels. I believe he must have developed a template into which he simply plugged in names and events different from those he used last time around. Morning, Noon, and Night is still a page turner, but there are no surprises and the plot is barely above that above what a third grade student might write for composition class.

If I want to read any Sheldon in the future, I'll go back and reread some of his best efforts and pass on his most recent disappointments.

Meh. It's another cliched rich man drowns, or did he, and then a mysterious kid comes into the picture claiming to be an heir that has to prove their legit and entitled to the big money payout piece. Nothing about it will catch you by surprise, the who done its will make Scooby Doo frustrated, and the novel really reads more like a first draft snooze fest. Skip.

Another excellent Sheldon page turner, one of the world's wealthiest men dies leaving behind a billion dollar estate. Following the funeral a woman turns up claiming to be the illegitimate child and entitled to a portion of the estate.

Typical of a Sheldon novel there is layers of detail and numerous twists.

It has some typos, as you should expect from this publisher (Record).
But it's a very nice fiction, sometimes you just imagine what could happen next and then you read exactly what you imagined in the next chapter or few pages, so maybe it can sound a little bit cliché, but as entertainment is a good book. Pretty nice.

Fast read, Agatha Christy like character development. Unpredictable plot with many twists.

Rather amusing book about greed, corruption and manipulation.