Mr. Bestseller is back - and, somewhat at sea away from his
show-biz backgrounds, he attaches his frighteningly readable style
to characters and plots borrowed from anywhere and everywhere. From
The Rothschilds, he cadges (doing quite a charming job of it) the
early history of Roffe & Sons, a ghetto-born pharmaceutical
empire with far-flung brothers founding international branches.
From gothics he takes his contemporary heroine - Elizabeth Roffe,
fat and lonely as a teenager but becoming beautiful just in time to
inherit the controlling interest in Roffe & Sons when papa Sam
dies (accidentally?) climbing an Alp. And the basic jet-setting
plot is derived from. . . you name it: someone - it must be one of
the stock-owning cousins (sweet-natured English Alec? Italian
bigamist Ivo? French hellcat Helene? German hausfrau Anna?) or one
of their spouses - is sabotaging the company, tampering with
stubborn Elizabeth's car and elevator, trying to force her to let
the company go public, which would free the cousins to sell stock
and reap cash. Each of the suspects, of course, has molto motive
for needing quick money (gambling debts, greedy mistress), and each
also has a psychosexual kink to spice up the proceedings (the
mystery villain enjoys filming the mid-copulation strangulation of
loose-living ladies). And (remember Suspicion?) Elizabeth isn't
even sure she can trust William Rhys, her late father's right-hand
man, her all-time heart-throb, and now her husband. Believe it or
not, Sheldon's mixmastering of all this isn't nearly as sleazy as
it might be, which probably means that it won't be quite as big a
bonanza as Midnight or Mirror - but even minor-league Sheldon is
major-league business. (Kirkus Reviews)
A DAUGHTER OF PRIVILEGE
Elizabeth Roffe, possessed beauty, intelligence, youth, the adored daughter of a rich and powerful father.
At his death she had to obey his behest and take command of his mighty global empire. It made Elizabeth the richest girl in the world. But someone, somewhere, was determined that she must die…
In this story that spans three continents, Sidney Sheldon spins a hypnotic, exotic web – of love and ambition, of danger and death.
'Sheldon is a writer working at the height of his power…powerful enough to drag us along with him. I hung on till the very end.'
NEW YORK TIMES
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